CVE-2024-50039
CVE-2024-50039CVE-2024-50039
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: accept TCA_STAB only for root qdisc
Most qdiscs maintain their backlog using qdisc_pkt_len(skb)
on the assumption it is invariant between the enqueue()
and dequeue() handlers.
Unfortunately syzbot can crash a host rather easily using
a TBF + SFQ combination, with an STAB on SFQ [1]
We can't support TCA_STAB on arbitrary level, this would
require to maintain per-qdisc storage.
[1]
[ 88.796496] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 88.798611] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 88.799014] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 88.799506] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 88.799829] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 88.800569] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 2053 Comm: b371744477 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-virtme #1117
[ 88.801107] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 88.801779] RIP: 0010:sfq_dequeue (net/sched/sch_sfq.c:272
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |