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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2025

net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit"

CVE-2023-53624

Description

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

net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit"

if sch_fq is configured with "initial quantum" having values greater than INT_MAX, the first assignment of "credit" does signed integer overflow to a very negative value. In this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the CPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop, but "credit" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow. Capping "initial quantum" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue.

v2: validation of "initial quantum" is done in fq_policy, instead of open coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski

Affected products

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Patches

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Vulnerability mechanics

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