cve-2025-37797
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-02 14:16
Modified
2025-05-02 14:16
Severity ?
Summary
net_sched: hfsc: Fix a UAF vulnerability in class handling
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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