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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2026-52980",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52980",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T16:28:56.457Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-24T16:28:56.457Z",
    "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"
    },
    "facts": {
      "title": "sched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/fair: Clear rel_deadline when initializing forked entities\n\nA yield-triggered crash can happen when a newly forked sched_entity\nenters the fair class with se->rel_deadline unexpectedly set.\n\nThe failing sequence is:\n\n  1. A task is forked while se->rel_deadline is still set.\n  2. __sched_fork() initializes vruntime, vlag and other sched_entity\n     state, but does not clear rel_deadline.\n  3. On the first enqueue, enqueue_entity() calls place_entity().\n  4. Because se->rel_deadline is set, place_entity() treats se->deadline\n     as a relative deadline and converts it to an absolute deadline by\n     adding the current vruntime.\n  5. However, the forked entity's deadline is not a valid inherited\n     relative deadline for this new scheduling instance, so the conversion\n     produces an abnormally large deadline.\n  6. If the task later calls sched_yield(), yield_task_fair() advances\n     se->vruntime to se->deadline.\n  7. The inflated vruntime is then used by the following enqueue path,\n     where the vruntime-derived key can overflow when multiplied by the\n     entity weight.\n  8. This corrupts cfs_rq->sum_w_vruntime, breaks EEVDF eligibility\n     calculation, and can eventually make all entities appear ineligible.\n     pick_next_entity() may then return NULL unexpectedly, leading to a\n     later NULL dereference.\n\nA captured trace shows the effect clearly. Before yield, the entity's\nvruntime was around:\n\n  9834017729983308\n\nAfter yield_task_fair() executed:\n\n  se->vruntime = se->deadline\n\nthe vruntime jumped to:\n\n  19668035460670230\n\nand the deadline was later advanced further to:\n\n  19668035463470230\n\nThis shows that the deadline had already become abnormally large before\nyield_task_fair() copied it into vruntime.\n\nrel_deadline is only meaningful when se->deadline really carries a\nrelative deadline that still needs to be placed against vruntime. A\nfreshly forked sched_entity should not inherit or retain this state.\nClear se->rel_deadline in __sched_fork(), together with the other\nsched_entity runtime state, so that the first enqueue does not interpret\nthe new entity's deadline as a stale relative deadline.",
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            },
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              "status": "affected",
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            },
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              "status": "affected",
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            },
            {
              "version": "82e9d0456e06cebe2c89f3c73cdbc9e3805e9437",
              "status": "affected",
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            }
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        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "affected",
          "versions": [
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              "version": "6.12",
              "status": "affected"
            },
            {
              "version": "0",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThan": "6.12"
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            {
              "version": "6.12.91",
              "status": "unaffected",
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              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "6.18.33",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "7.0.10",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "7.0.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "7.1",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
            }
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