# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72068"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:21.007Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:35.943Z"
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-2026-72068"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72068.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72068"
title: "posix-cpu-timers: Use u64 multiplication in update_rlimit_cpu()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nposix-cpu-timers: Use u64 multiplication in update_rlimit_cpu()\n\nupdate_rlimit_cpu() converts the RLIMIT_CPU value to nanoseconds with\n\n        u64 nsecs = rlim_new * NSEC_PER_SEC;\n\nOn 32-bit kernels both rlim_new (unsigned long) and NSEC_PER_SEC\n(1000000000L) are 32-bit, so the multiplication is performed in unsigned\nlong and truncated for rlim_new \u003e 4 seconds before being widened to u64.\n\nThe same file already casts to u64 for the matching computation in\ncheck_process_timers():\n\n        u64 softns = (u64)soft * NSEC_PER_SEC;\n\nAs a result, the truncated value is installed into the CPUCLOCK_PROF\nexpiry cache (nextevt), causing the process CPU timer to be programmed\nto fire prematurely for any RLIMIT_CPU soft limit \u003e= 5 seconds. The\nactual SIGXCPU/SIGKILL decision in check_process_timers() already casts\nto u64 and is therefore correct, so limit enforcement is not broken;\nonly the expiry-cache programming is wrong. Apply the same cast here so\nboth paths convert rlim_cur identically.\n\n64-bit kernels are unaffected."
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