CVE-2026-43496

CVE-2026-43496 affects the Linux kernel net/sched subsystem (sch_red). When red qdiscs with children (e.g., qfq) perform a peek() to expose an skb and then immediately dequeue from the child, the code path could dereference NULL and trigger a kernel panic. The fix changes the sequence from direct...

Linux Kernel Security Vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the core of the open-source operating system Linux, developed by the Linux Foundation in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which stems from race conditions in the DMA ring dequeuing path. This could lead to interference between multiple...

CVE-2026-31733 sched_ext: Fix stale direct dispatch state in ddsp_dsq_id

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: schedext: Fix stale direct dispatch state in ddspdsqid @p-scx.ddspdsqid can be left set non-SCXDSQINVALID triggering a spurious warning in markdirectdispatch when the next wakeup's ops.selectcpu calls scxbpfdsqinsert, such as:...

CVE-2026-23340 net: sched: avoid qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: avoid qdiscresetalltxgt vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs When shrinking the number of real tx queues, netifsetrealnumtxqueues calls qdiscresetalltxgt to flush qdiscs for queues which will no longer be used...

kernel: use-after-free in sch_qfq network scheduler

A use-after-free flaw was found in qfqdequeue and aggdequeue in net/sched/schqfq.c in the Traffic Control QoS subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system...