# 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-2026-45968"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:27.247Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:27.247Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45968"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45968.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45968"
title: "cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available\n\nOn certain platforms (PowerNV systems without a power-mgt DT node),\ncpuidle may register only a single idle state. In cases where that\nsingle state is a polling state (state 0), the ladder governor may\nincorrectly treat state 1 as the first usable state and pass an\nout-of-bounds index. This can lead to a NULL enter callback being\ninvoked, ultimately resulting in a system crash.\n\n[   13.342636] cpuidle-powernv : Only Snooze is available\n[   13.351854] Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000\n[   13.376489] NIP [0000000000000000] 0x0\n[   13.378351] LR  [c000000001e01974] cpuidle_enter_state+0x2c4/0x668\n\nFix this by adding a bail-out in cpuidle_select() that returns state 0\ndirectly when state_count \u003c= 1, bypassing the governor and keeping the\ntick running."
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