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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72010"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:39.755Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:06:32.084Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72010"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72010.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72010"
title: "cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed\n\nCreating a child cpuset where cpuset.mems is never set leads to a div/0\nwhen a VMA mempolicy with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES rebinds in response to a\nCPU hotplug event.\n\nReproduction steps:\n 1) Create a cgroup w/ cpuset controls (do not set cpuset.mems)\n 2) Move the task into the child cpuset\n 3) Create a VMA mempolicy for that task with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES\n 4) unplug and hotplug a cpu\n      echo 0 \u003e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online\n      echo 1 \u003e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online\n 5) mempolicy rebind does a div/0 in mpol_relative_nodemask on the\n    call to __nodes_fold()\n\nThe cpuset code passes (cs-\u003emems_allowed) which is not guaranteed to have\nnodes to the rebind routine.  Use cs-\u003eeffective_mems instead, which is\nguaranteed to have a non-empty nodemask once we reach that code path.\n\n[ david: add a comment, slightly rephrase description ]"
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