CVE-2026-22999: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class() Fixes qfq_change_class() error case. cl->qdisc and cl should only be freed if a new class and qdisc were allocated, or we risk various UAF.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.8, before 5.10.249 (fixed in 5.10.249); from 5.11, before 5.15.199 (fixed in 5.15.199); from 5.16, before 6.1.162 (fixed in 6.1.162); from 6.2, before 6.6.122 (fixed in 6.6.122); from 6.7, before 6.12.67 (fixed in 6.12.67); from 6.13, before 6.18.7 (fixed in 6.18.7); …

Published 2026-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.