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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37821" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-08T06:26:15.535Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:15:47.720Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37821" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37821.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37821" title: "sched/eevdf: Fix se-\u003eslice being set to U64_MAX and resulting crash" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/eevdf: Fix se-\u003eslice being set to U64_MAX and resulting crash\n\nThere is a code path in dequeue_entities() that can set the slice of a\nsched_entity to U64_MAX, which sometimes results in a crash.\n\nThe offending case is when dequeue_entities() is called to dequeue a\ndelayed group entity, and then the entity's parent's dequeue is delayed.\nIn that case:\n\n1. In the if (entity_is_task(se)) else block at the beginning of\n dequeue_entities(), slice is set to\n cfs_rq_min_slice(group_cfs_rq(se)). If the entity was delayed, then\n it has no queued tasks, so cfs_rq_min_slice() returns U64_MAX.\n2. The first for_each_sched_entity() loop dequeues the entity.\n3. If the entity was its parent's only child, then the next iteration\n tries to dequeue the parent.\n4. If the parent's dequeue needs to be delayed, then it breaks from the\n first for_each_sched_entity() loop _without updating slice_.\n5. The second for_each_sched_entity() loop sets the parent's -\u003eslice to\n the saved slice, which is still U64_MAX.\n\nThis throws off subsequent calculations with potentially catastrophic\nresults. A manifestation we saw in production was:\n\n6. In update_entity_lag(), se-\u003eslice is used to calculate limit, which\n ends up as a huge negative number.\n7. limit is used in se-\u003evlag = clamp(vlag, -limit, limit). Because limit\n is negative, vlag \u003e limit, so se-\u003evlag is set to the same huge\n negative number.\n8. In place_entity(), se-\u003evlag is scaled, which overflows and results in\n another huge (positive or negative) number.\n9. The adjusted lag is subtracted from se-\u003evruntime, which increases or\n decreases se-\u003evruntime by a huge number.\n10. pick_eevdf() calls entity_eligible()/vruntime_eligible(), which\n incorrectly returns false because the vruntime is so far from the\n other vruntimes on the queue, causing the\n (vruntime - cfs_rq-\u003emin_vruntime) * load calulation to overflow.\n11. Nothing appears to be eligible, so pick_eevdf() returns NULL.\n12. pick_next_entity() tries to dereference the return value of\n pick_eevdf() and crashes.\n\nDumping the cfs_rq states from the core dumps with drgn showed tell-tale\nhuge vruntime ranges and bogus vlag values, and I also traced se-\u003eslice\nbeing set to U64_MAX on live systems (which was usually \"benign\" since\nthe rest of the runqueue needed to be in a particular state to crash).\n\nFix it in dequeue_entities() by always setting slice from the first\nnon-empty cfs_rq." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aef6987d89544d63a47753cf3741cabff0b5574c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86b37810fa1e40b93171da023070b99ccbb4ea04"},{"version":"aef6987d89544d63a47753cf3741cabff0b5574c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50a665496881262519f115f1bfe5822f30580eb0"},{"version":"aef6987d89544d63a47753cf3741cabff0b5574c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbce3de72be56e4b5f68924b7da9630cc89aa1a8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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