Duty Analyst: Joseph McCarthy

CVE-2026-22999

Published: 2026-01-25 15:15:55 | Last modified: 2026-04-27 14:16:29

HIGH CVSS 7.8
No EPSS data

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class()

Fixes qfq_change_class() error case.

cl->qdisc and cl should only be freed if a new class and qdisc
were allocated, or we risk various UAF.

CVSS details

Severity
high
Score
7.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

This CVE is not currently listed in the EPSS dataset.

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