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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52980" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52980.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52980" 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-\u003erel_deadline unexpectedly set.\n\nThe failing sequence is:\n\n 1. A task is forked while se-\u003erel_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-\u003erel_deadline is set, place_entity() treats se-\u003edeadline\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-\u003evruntime to se-\u003edeadline.\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-\u003esum_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-\u003evruntime = se-\u003edeadline\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-\u003edeadline 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-\u003erel_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." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"82e9d0456e06cebe2c89f3c73cdbc9e3805e9437","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c71bf35caba12bfd9bc23e32b0bcd9e02d1cf1ac"},{"version":"82e9d0456e06cebe2c89f3c73cdbc9e3805e9437","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3c16e1f4a314a20717ab90a41885f8111a242ab"},{"version":"82e9d0456e06cebe2c89f3c73cdbc9e3805e9437","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f4a16200785f49cf02c5b71bdfe7a9dab63f23a"},{"version":"82e9d0456e06cebe2c89f3c73cdbc9e3805e9437","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3da56dc063cd77b9c0b40add930767fab4e389f3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","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":"*"}],"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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