CVE-2024-53164: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment Changes to sch->q.qlen around qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() need to happen _before_ a call to said function because otherwise it may fail to notify parent qdiscs when the child is about to become empty.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.289 (fixed in 5.4.289); from 5.5, before 5.10.233 (fixed in 5.10.233); from 5.11, before 5.15.176 (fixed in 5.15.176); from 5.16, before 6.1.122 (fixed in 6.1.122); from 6.2, before 6.6.68 (fixed in 6.6.68); from 6.7, before 6.12.7 (fixed in 6.12.7); …

Published 2024-12-27. Last modified 2026-08-04.