# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31423"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-13T13:40:26.567Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:16:04.497Z"
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-2026-31423"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31423.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31423"
title: "net/sched: sch_hfsc: fix divide-by-zero in rtsc_min()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_hfsc: fix divide-by-zero in rtsc_min()\n\nm2sm() converts a u32 slope to a u64 scaled value.  For large inputs\n(e.g. m1=4000000000), the result can reach 2^32.  rtsc_min() stores\nthe difference of two such u64 values in a u32 variable `dsm` and\nuses it as a divisor.  When the difference is exactly 2^32 the\ntruncation yields zero, causing a divide-by-zero oops in the\nconcave-curve intersection path:\n\n  Oops: divide error: 0000\n  RIP: 0010:rtsc_min (net/sched/sch_hfsc.c:601)\n  Call Trace:\n   init_ed (net/sched/sch_hfsc.c:629)\n   hfsc_enqueue (net/sched/sch_hfsc.c:1569)\n   [...]\n\nWiden `dsm` to u64 and replace do_div() with div64_u64() so the full\ndifference is preserved."
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