# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90074"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:54.214Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:31.165Z"
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-2026-90074"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90074.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90074"
title: "net/sched: fq_pie: clamp default quantum to avoid signed overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: fq_pie: clamp default quantum to avoid signed overflow\n\nfq_pie_init() sets q-\u003equantum = psched_mtu(qdisc_dev(sch)) without\nclamping. A device with a huge MTU (e.g. dummy with max_mtu == 0\naccepting MTU 2147483634) makes psched_mtu() return 0x80000000, which\noverflows the signed flow-\u003edeficit to INT_MIN in fq_pie_qdisc_dequeue(),\ncausing an infinite loop and soft lockup. Emulate fq_pie_policy which\nis already bounded to [1, 1 \u003c\u003c 20]; clamp the default to [256, 1 \u003c\u003c 20].\n256 matches fq_codel's floor and is a sane minimum for a DRR quantum.\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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