# 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-2026-89765"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:47:05.851Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:18.849Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89765"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89765.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89765"
title: "timers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspace"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntimers/itimer: Zero-init old itimerval before copy to userspace\n\nOn native sparc64, struct __kernel_old_timeval contains a four-byte hole\nafter tv_usec because tv_sec is 64-bit while __kernel_suseconds_t is 32-bit.\nput_itimerval() fills only the named fields in a stack-allocated\n__kernel_old_itimerval and copies the entire object to userspace, so\ngetitimer() can expose the two padding holes.\n\nZero-initialize the aggregate before assigning the fields so implicit\npadding is deterministic before it crosses the user/kernel boundary."
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