# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53270"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:55.830Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:32.999Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53270"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53270.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53270"
title: "ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit\n\nip_vs_edit_service() while unbinding the old scheduler clears\nthe svc-\u003escheduler ptr after the scheduler module initiates\nRCU callbacks. This can cause packets to use the old\nscheduler at the time when svc-\u003esched_data is already freed\nafter RCU grace period.\n\nFix it by clearing the ptr early in ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(),\nbefore the done_service method schedules any RCU callbacks.\n\nAlso, if the new scheduler fails to initialize when replacing\nthe old scheduler, try to restore the old scheduler while still\nreturning the error code."
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