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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23266" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:44:48.715Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:03:32.226Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-23266" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23266.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23266" title: "fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()\n\nA userspace program can trigger the RIVA NV3 arbitration code by calling\nthe FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl on /dev/fb*. When doing so, the driver\nrecomputes FIFO arbitration parameters in nv3_arb(), using state-\u003emclk_khz\n(derived from the PRAMDAC MCLK PLL) as a divisor without validating it\nfirst.\n\nIn a normal setup, state-\u003emclk_khz is provided by the real hardware and is\nnon-zero. However, an attacker can construct a malicious or misconfigured\ndevice (e.g. a crafted/emulated PCI device) that exposes a bogus PLL\nconfiguration, causing state-\u003emclk_khz to become zero. Once\nnv3_get_param() calls nv3_arb(), the division by state-\u003emclk_khz in the gns\ncalculation causes a divide error and crashes the kernel.\n\nFix this by checking whether state-\u003emclk_khz is zero and bailing out before\ndoing the division.\n\nThe following log reveals it:\n\nrivafb: setting virtual Y resolution to 2184\ndivide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 2187 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1+ #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:nv3_arb drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:439 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:nv3_get_param+0x3ab/0x13b0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:546\nCall Trace:\n nv3CalcArbitration.constprop.0+0x255/0x460 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:603\n nv3UpdateArbitrationSettings drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:637 [inline]\n CalcStateExt+0x447/0x1b90 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:1246\n riva_load_video_mode+0x8a9/0xea0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c:779\n rivafb_set_par+0xc0/0x5f0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c:1196\n fb_set_var+0x604/0xeb0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1033\n do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1109\n fb_ioctl+0xdd/0x130 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1188\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190 fs/ioctl.c:856" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec5a58f4fd581875593ea92a65485e1906a53c0f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52916878db2b8e3769743a94484729f0844352df"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"526460a96c5443e2fc0fd231edd1f9c49d2de26b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78daf5984d96edec3b920c72a93bd6821b8710b7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9efa0dc46270a8723c158c64afbcf1dead72b28c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e4cbd1d46c246dfa684c8e9d8c20ae0b960c50a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73f0391e92d404da68f7484e57c106c5e673dc7e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0209e21e3c372fa2da04c39214bec0b64e4eb5f4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.201","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.164","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.127","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.74","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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