{"id":82556,"date":"2026-07-26T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-64530-net-sched-cls_api-handle-tc_act_consumed-in-tcf_qevent_handle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:16:41","slug":"cve-2026-64530-net-sched-cls_api-handle-tc_act_consumed-in-tcf_qevent_handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-64530-net-sched-cls_api-handle-tc_act_consumed-in-tcf_qevent_handle\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-64530 &#8211; net\/sched: cls_api: Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-64530<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 26, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 37\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>net\/sched: cls_api: Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle<\/p>\n<p>tcf_classify() can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while the skb is held by the<br \/>\ndefragmentation engine (e.g. act_ct on out-of-order fragments). When<br \/>\nthat happens the skb is no longer owned by the caller and must not be<br \/>\ntouched again.<\/p>\n<p>tcf_qevent_handle() did not handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED: it fell through the<br \/>\nswitch and returned the skb to the caller as if classification had<br \/>\npassed. The only qdisc that wires up qevents today is RED, via three call sites<br \/>\n(qe_mark on RED_PROB_MARK\/HARD_MARK, qe_early_drop on congestion_drop)<br \/>\nred_enqueue() was continuing to operate on an skb it no longer owns  in this<br \/>\ncase &#8212; enqueueing it, dropping it, or updating statistics. Resulting in a UAF.<\/p>\n<p>  tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: red &#8230; qevent early_drop block 10<br \/>\n  tc filter add block 10 &#8230; action ct<\/p>\n<p>  (with ct defrag enabled and traffic that produces out-of-order<br \/>\n  fragments, e.g. a fragmented UDP stream)<\/p>\n<p>Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle() the same way the ingress<br \/>\nand egress fast paths do: treat it as stolen and return NULL without<br \/>\ntouching the skb. Unlike the TC_ACT_STOLEN case, the skb must not be<br \/>\ndropped\/freed here, as it is no longer owned by us.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-64530 Published : July 26, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 37\u00a0minutes ago Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net\/sched: cls_api: Handle TC_ACT_CONSUMED in tcf_qevent_handle tcf_classify() can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while the skb is held by the defragmentation engine (e.g. act_ct on out-of-order fragments). When that happens the skb is no &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}