# 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-2026-72181"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:44.453Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:36:28.810Z"
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-2026-72181"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72181.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72181"
title: "mips: sched: Fix CPUMASK_OFFSTACK memory corruption"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmips: sched: Fix CPUMASK_OFFSTACK memory corruption\n\nThis patch addresses a critical memory management flaw. When\nCONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, cpumask_var_t is a pointer.\nConsequently, sizeof(new_mask) evaluates to the pointer size, causing\ncopy_from_user() to clobber the mask pointer. Furthermore, the old\nlogic performed copy_from_user() before allocating the mask.\n\nFix this by allocating new_mask first. To handle variable-sized user\nmasks correctly, use cpumask_size() to truncate overly large user masks\nor pad undersized masks with zeros before copying the data directly into\nthe allocated buffer."
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