# 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-2026-90072"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:52.905Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:29.264Z"
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-2026-90072"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90072.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90072"
title: "net/sched: sfq: clamp quantum to avoid signed overflow soft lockup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: sfq: clamp quantum to avoid signed overflow soft lockup\n\nsfq_init() sets q-\u003equantum = psched_mtu(qdisc_dev(sch)) (unsigned). A\ndevice with a huge MTU (e.g. dummy with max_mtu == 0 accepting MTU\n2147483634) makes psched_mtu() return 0x80000000, so slot-\u003eallot = INT_MIN\nand INT_MIN + INT_MIN toggles between INT_MIN and 0 forever, spinning\nsfq_dequeue() under the qdisc lock.\n\nClamp the quantum to [256, 1 \u003c\u003c 20] so the refill loop terminates. The\nlower bound also covers q-\u003equantum == 0 (psched_mtu() returning 0),\nwhich spins sfq_dequeue() identically. sfq_change() already rejects a\nnegative quantum, so only the init path was exposed.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug: a device whose MTU (plus\nhard_header_len) wraps psched_mtu() into the sign bit (e.g. a dummy\ndevice with max_mtu == 0 accepting MTU 2147483634). Requires\nCAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace."
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