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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90058" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:43.184Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:15.626Z" 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-2026-90058" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90058.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90058" title: "net/sched: bound qdisc_pkt_len to prevent qdisc soft lockup" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: bound qdisc_pkt_len to prevent qdisc soft lockup\n\nqdisc_get_stab() accepts a user-supplied size table, and\n__qdisc_calculate_pkt_len() amplifies qdisc_pkt_len() through the\noverhead, the size-table data (u16), and size_log (up to\nSTAB_SIZE_LOG_MAX). A crafted stab can therefore set qdisc_pkt_len()\nto ~1 GiB for an ordinary skb. Per-flow deficit schedulers such as\nDRR and ETS replenish one quantum per loop iteration; with a tiny\nquantum (1) they spin billions of times under the qdisc lock,\nproducing a soft lockup / RCU stall as illustrated by vega@nebusec.ai.\n\nCap the final qdisc_pkt_len() to QDISC_PKT_LEN_MAX so the size-table\namplification cannot drive deficit schedulers into an unbounded loop.\nA legitimate size table (e.g. qfq's overhead 999999999, which is\nhandled by dropping) is still accepted.\n\nIntroduce cap QDISC_PKT_LEN_MAX (1 \u003c\u003c 20) = 1 MiB which is well above\nany legitimate single-skb wire length: the largest current skb-\u003elen\nis GSO_MAX_SIZE (524280), and an ATM-style size table (53/48 cell tax)\namplifies that to ~578 KB, both comfortably below 1 MiB. At the same\ntime, 1 MiB bounds the deficit refill loop to ~1M iterations per\npacket with quantum=1, which completes in a few milliseconds well\nunder the demonstrated softlockup threshold (~10^9 iterations).\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n- CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y, CONFIG_NET_SCH_DRR=y (or CONFIG_NET_SCH_ETS=y).\n- Attach a DRR (or ETS) root qdisc with a crafted TCA_STAB that\n amplifies qdisc_pkt_len to ~1 GiB (e.g. size_log=15, data=[32768]).\n- Add a class with a tiny quantum of 1 and send one small packet; the\n deficit loop spins billions of times under the qdisc lock and trips\n the softlockup detector (panic with kernel.softlockup_panic=1).\n- Reachable as root or from an unprivileged user in a fresh user+net\n namespace (unshare -Urn) with namespace-local CAP_NET_ADMIN." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f0f4b09a95ef602fbdae948326beadd9c20eab3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0bc5a6280a132a2170c6fa742436e01b635f02de"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"448c34421b38ec7c93a0060a885218ca319d382b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82fdbf49b9f7528c82bf608cfa9710e5f81a198c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e78792d8ce1fa3561713860ee8086901dde4f99"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a5c26e586481bc82abc19ac92c3d9f10518f525"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16d21a27df3f50b7251c9388fc5a7ab22703b469"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f735d64382dcf162f4276d6699d03ad2f859c0b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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