Inside the Talos 2025 Year in Review: A discussion on what the data means for defenders

Every year, the Cisco Talos Year in Review captures the patterns shaping the threat landscape. The 2025 report paints a clear picture: Attackers are moving faster than ever, while using identity-related attacks as the primary battleground. To unpack the biggest takeaways and what they mean for...

PT-2026-29720

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux Kernel affected versions not specified Description A use-after-free issue exists in the clsact qdisc during init/destroy rollback asymmetry. This occurs when a clsact instance is fully initialized, and a subsequent replacement fails. The...

net: sched: avoid qdisc_reset_all_tx_gt() vs dequeue race for lockless qdiscs

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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...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Improper Input Validation(CVE-2025-38457)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: Abort tcmodifyqdisc if parent class does not exist Lion's patch 1 revealed an ancient bug in the qdisc API. Whenever a user creates/modifies a qdisc specifying as a parent another qdisc, the qdisc API will, during...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

kernel: Linux kernel: Use-after-free in teql queueing discipline can lead to privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking component. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a design issue in the teql queueing discipline, which is responsible for managing network traffic. By sending specially crafted network packets, an attacker could trigger a use-after-fr...

ALSA-2026:3110 Important: kernel-rt security update

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fixes: kernel: pagepool: Fix use-after-free in pagepoolrecycleinring CVE-2025-38129 kernel: Linux kernel:A use-after-free in bridge multicast in...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2026:3110)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:3110 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

PT-2026-43733

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A use-after-free issue exists in the caif serial component of the Linux kernel. A race condition occurs between the ldisc close function and packet transmission. Specifically, ldisc clos...

CVE-2026-23074

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc Design intent of teql is that it is only supposed to be used as root qdisc. We need to check for that constraint. Although not important, I will describe the scenario th...

CVE-2026-23105

CVE-2026-23105 (Linux kernel) : A fix in the net/sched/qfq code changes the activation check of a class from relying on the child qdisc’s qlen to using cl_is_active in qfq_rm_from_ag. This patch makes activation determination more consistent and aims to prevent exploits that could manipulate chil...