# 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-2026-72036"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:57.012Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:24.167Z"
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-2026-72036"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72036.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72036"
title: "net/sched: sch_multiq: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sch_multiq: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked\n\nmultiq_dequeue() takes a packet from a band's child with a direct\n-\u003edequeue() call after multiq_peek() peeked it. When the child is\nnon-work-conserving the peek stashes the skb in the child's gso_skb, so\nthe direct dequeue returns a different skb and orphans the stash,\ndesyncing the child's qlen/backlog. With a qfq child reached through a\npeeking parent (e.g. tbf) this re-enters the child on an emptied list and\ndereferences NULL, panicking the kernel from softirq on ordinary egress.\n\nTake the packet through qdisc_dequeue_peeked(), as sch_prio already does\nand as sch_red and sch_sfb were just fixed to do. The helper is a no-op\nwhen the child has no stash, so a work-conserving child is unaffected."
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