Evidence used
- No CISA KEV confirmation is currently recorded.
- Exploitation requires an existing local or physical foothold with privileges.
- EPSS is 0.24% for the current model date.
BlackTreeCVE IntelligenceLinux · Linux
Medium technical severity with no CISA KEV confirmation; remediate through the normal risk-based patch cycle unless local exposure raises the priority. Verified remediation exists for at least one product or source, but 16 structured product or package states remain unresolved. Apply remediation only to the exact product branch confirmed by its source.
Verified remediation exists for at least one product or source, but 16 structured product or package states remain unresolved. Apply remediation only to the exact product branch confirmed by its source.
Debian findings are scoped to the named distribution, release and source package. An absent finding does not mean a package is unaffected.
A published vendor fix does not prove that a matching update is enabled and installable on a particular asset. Confirm the local package candidate before scheduling remediation.
| Distribution release | Source package | Vendor state | Fixed version | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian trixietrixie · source | linux | Vendor fix publishedDebian records a fixed source-package version for this release. | 5.15.15-1 | Debian Security Tracker ↗Source updated 5 Oct 2026 |
| Debian bookwormbookworm · source | linux | Vendor fix publishedDebian records a fixed source-package version for this release. | 5.15.15-1 | Debian Security Tracker ↗Source updated 5 Oct 2026 |
| Debian forkyforky · source | linux | Vendor fix publishedDebian records a fixed source-package version for this release. | 5.15.15-1 | Debian Security Tracker ↗Source updated 5 Oct 2026 |
| Debian sidsid · source | linux | Vendor fix publishedDebian records a fixed source-package version for this release. | 5.15.15-1 | Debian Security Tracker ↗Source updated 5 Oct 2026 |
Structured product status and remediation from the issuing vendor. Product-state explanations are always visible; large lists can be searched or downloaded.
The vendor explicitly identifies these products as affected by this CVE.
Medium technical severity with no CISA KEV confirmation; remediate through the normal risk-based patch cycle unless local exposure raises the priority. Verified remediation exists for at least one product or source, but 16 structured product or package states remain unresolved. Apply remediation only to the exact product branch confirmed by its source.
Fix availability varies by productIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_ets: don't peek at classes beyond 'nbands' when the number of DRR classes decreases, the round-robin active list can contain elements that have already been freed in ets_qdisc_change(). As a consequence, it's possible to see a NULL dereference crash, caused by the attempt to call cl->qdisc->ops->peek(cl->qdisc) when cl->qdisc is NULL: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 910 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #475 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ets_qdisc_dequeue+0x129/0x2c0 [sch_ets] Code: c5 01 41 39 ad e4 02 00 00 0f 87 18 ff ff ff 49 8b 85 c0 02 00 00 49 39 c4 0f 84 ba 00 00 00 49 8b ad c0 02 00 00 48 8b 7d 10 <48> 8b 47 18 48 8b 40 38 0f ae e8 ff d0 48 89 c3 48 85 c0 0f 84 9d RSP: 0000:ffffbb36c0b5fdd8 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff956678efed30 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff9b938dc9 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff956678efed30 R08: e2f3207fe360129c R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff956678efeac0 R13: ffff956678efe800 R14: ffff956611545000 R15: ffff95667ac8f100 FS: 00007f2aa9120740(0000) GS:ffff95667b800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000011070c000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> qdisc_peek_dequeued+0x29/0x70 [sch_ets] tbf_dequeue+0x22/0x260 [sch_tbf] __qdisc_run+0x7f/0x630 net_tx_action+0x290/0x4c0 __do_softirq+0xee/0x4f8 irq_exit_rcu+0xf4/0x130 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x52/0xc0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7f2aa7fc9ad4 Code: b9 ff ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 83 c4 08 48 89 ee 48 89 df 5b 5d e9 ed fc ff ff 0f 1f 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa <53> 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 05 10 64 33 00 48 8b 00 48 85 c0 0f 85 84 00 RSP: 002b:00007ffe5d33fab8 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000561f72c31460 RCX: 0000561f72c31720 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000561f72c31722 RDI: 0000561f72c31720 RBP: 000000000000002a R08: 00007ffe5d33fa40 R09: 0000000000000014 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000561f7187e380 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000561f72c31460 </TASK> Modules linked in: sch_ets sch_tbf dummy rfkill iTCO_wdt intel_rapl_msr iTCO_vendor_support intel_rapl_common joydev virtio_balloon lpc_ich i2c_i801 i2c_smbus pcspkr ip_tables xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ahci libahci ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw libata virtio_blk virtio_console virtio_net net_failover failover sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CR2: 0000000000000018 Ensuring that 'alist' was never zeroed [1] was not sufficient, we need to remove from the active list those elements that are no more SP nor DRR. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60d274838bf09777f0371253416e8af71360bc08.1633609148.git.dcaratti@redhat.com/ v3: fix race between ets_qdisc_change() and ets_qdisc_dequeue() delisting DRR classes beyond 'nbands' in ets_qdisc_change() with the qdisc lock acquired, thanks to Cong Wang. v2: when a NULL qdisc is found in the DRR active list, try to dequeue skb from the next list item.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_ets: don't peek at classes beyond 'nbands' when the number of DRR classes decreases, the round-robin active list can contain elements that have already been freed in ets_qdisc_change(). As a consequence, it's possible to see a NULL dereference crash, caused by the attempt to call cl->qdisc->ops->peek(cl->qdisc) when cl->qdisc is NULL: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 910 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #475 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ets_qdisc_dequeue+0x129/0x2c0 [sch_ets] Code: c5 01 41 39 ad e4 02 00 00 0f 87 18 ff ff ff 49 8b 85 c0 02 00 00 49 39 c4 0f 84 ba 00 00 00 49 8b ad c0 02 00 00 48 8b 7d 10 <48> 8b 47 18 48 8b 40 38 0f ae e8 ff d0 48 89 c3 48 85 c0 0f 84 9d RSP: 0000:ffffbb36c0b5fdd8 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff956678efed30 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff9b938dc9 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff956678efed30 R08: e2f3207fe360129c R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff956678efeac0 R13: ffff956678efe800 R14: ffff956611545000 R15: ffff95667ac8f100 FS: 00007f2aa9120740(0000) GS:ffff95667b800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000011070c000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> qdisc_peek_dequeued+0x29/0x70 [sch_ets] tbf_dequeue+0x22/0x260 [sch_tbf] __qdisc_run+0x7f/0x630 net_tx_action+0x290/0x4c0 __do_softirq+0xee/0x4f8 irq_exit_rcu+0xf4/0x130 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x52/0xc0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7f2aa7fc9ad4 Code: b9 ff ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 83 c4 08 48 89 ee 48 89 df 5b 5d e9 ed fc ff ff 0f 1f 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa <53> 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 05 10 64 33 00 48 8b 00 48 85 c0 0f 85 84 00 RSP: 002b:00007ffe5d33fab8 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000561f72c31460 RCX: 0000561f72c31720 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000561f72c31722 RDI: 0000561f72c31720 RBP: 000000000000002a R08: 00007ffe5d33fa40 R09: 0000000000000014 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000561f7187e380 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000561f72c31460 </TASK> Modules linked in: sch_ets sch_tbf dummy rfkill iTCO_wdt intel_rapl_msr iTCO_vendor_support intel_rapl_common joydev virtio_balloon lpc_ich i2c_i801 i2c_smbus pcspkr ip_tables xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ahci libahci ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw libata virtio_blk virtio_console virtio_net net_failover failover sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CR2: 0000000000000018 Ensuring that 'alist' was never zeroed [1] was not sufficient, we need to remove from the active list those elements that are no more SP nor DRR. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60d274838bf09777f0371253416e8af71360bc08.1633609148.git.dcaratti@redhat.com/ v3: fix race between ets_qdisc_change() and ets_qdisc_dequeue() delisting DRR classes beyond 'nbands' in ets_qdisc_change() with the qdisc lock acquired, thanks to Cong Wang. v2: when a NULL qdisc is found in the DRR active list, try to dequeue skb from the next list item.
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
An attacker operating through local access may attempt exploitation with low privileges. If successful, the issue may disrupt the affected service.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_ets: don't peek at classes beyond 'nbands' when the number of DRR classes decreases, the round-robin active list can contain elements that have already been freed in ets_qdisc_change(). As a consequence, it's possible to see a NULL dereference crash, caused by the attempt to call cl->qdisc->ops->peek(cl->qdisc) when cl->qdisc is NULL: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 910 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #475 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ets_qdisc_dequeue+0x129/0x2c0 [sch_ets] Code: c5 01 41 39 ad e4 02 00 00 0f 87 18 ff ff ff 49 8b 85 c0 02 00 00 49 39 c4 0f 84 ba 00 00 00 49 8b ad c0 02 00 00 48 8b 7d 10 <48> 8b 47 18 48 8b 40 38 0f ae e8 ff d0 48 89 c3 48 85 c0 0f 84 9d RSP: 0000:ffffbb36c0b5fdd8 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff956678efed30 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff9b938dc9 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff956678efed30 R08: e2f3207fe360129c R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff956678efeac0 R13: ffff956678efe800 R14: ffff956611545000 R15: ffff95667ac8f100 FS: 00007f2aa9120740(0000) GS:ffff95667b800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000011070c000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> qdisc_peek_dequeued+0x29/0x70 [sch_ets] tbf_dequeue+0x22/0x260 [sch_tbf] __qdisc_run+0x7f/0x630 net_tx_action+0x290/0x4c0 __do_softirq+0xee/0x4f8 irq_exit_rcu+0xf4/0x130 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x52/0xc0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7f2aa7fc9ad4 Code: b9 ff ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 83 c4 08 48 89 ee 48 89 df 5b 5d e9 ed fc ff ff 0f 1f 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa <53> 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 05 10 64 33 00 48 8b 00 48 85 c0 0f 85 84 00 RSP: 002b:00007ffe5d33fab8 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000561f72c31460 RCX: 0000561f72c31720 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000561f72c31722 RDI: 0000561f72c31720 RBP: 000000000000002a R08: 00007ffe5d33fa40 R09: 0000000000000014 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000561f7187e380 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000561f72c31460 </TASK> Modules linked in: sch_ets sch_tbf dummy rfkill iTCO_wdt intel_rapl_msr iTCO_vendor_support intel_rapl_common joydev virtio_balloon lpc_ich i2c_i801 i2c_smbus pcspkr ip_tables xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ahci libahci ghash_clmulni_intel serio_raw libata virtio_blk virtio_console virtio_net net_failover failover sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CR2: 0000000000000018 Ensuring that 'alist' was never zeroed [1] was not sufficient, we need to remove from the active list those elements that are no more SP nor DRR. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60d274838bf09777f0371253416e8af71360bc08.1633609148.git.dcaratti@redhat.com/ v3: fix race between ets_qdisc_change() and ets_qdisc_dequeue() delisting DRR classes beyond 'nbands' in ets_qdisc_change() with the qdisc lock acquired, thanks to Cong Wang. v2: when a NULL qdisc is found in the DRR active list, try to dequeue skb from the next list item.
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
An attacker operating through local access may attempt exploitation with low privileges. If successful, the issue may disrupt the affected service.
CVSS severity, EPSS forecast probability, public exploit material and CISA-confirmed exploitation are separate signals.
No CISA KEV match was present at the last successful refresh. This means no confirmation from that source, not proof of no exploitation.
No exploit-tagged reference or CISA SSVC proof-of-concept state is currently recorded. Research may still exist outside the structured feeds.
CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCommon Vulnerability Scoring System 3.1: the compact vector below is decoded into plain language.
Operational remediation based on structured source evidence.
Published 24 May 2024 · Last source change 11 May 2026, 13:56 UTC · CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Core structured fields are present and their contributing authorities are shown above.
No material field changes have been recorded since change tracking began. Routine source refreshes and cosmetic edits are intentionally excluded.