# 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-2026-90075"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:54.851Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:32.110Z"
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-2026-90075"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90075.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90075"
title: "net/sched: fq_codel: clamp default quantum and mtu"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: fq_codel: clamp default quantum and mtu\n\nfq_codel_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_codel_dequeue(),\ncausing an infinite loop and soft lockup. Emulate fq_codel_change()\nand constrain to [256, FQ_CODEL_QUANTUM_MAX].\n\nThe same unclamped psched_mtu() is assigned to q-\u003ecparams.mtu a bit\nbelow, and fq_codel_change() never updates it. codel_should_drop()\ntests \"*backlog \u003c= params-\u003emtu\"; with mtu == 0x80000000 (~2 GiB) and\nthe default 32 MiB memory_limit, the test is always true, so CoDel is\nsilently and completely disabled (no drops, no ECN). Declare a single\nclamped mtu and assign both q-\u003equantum and q-\u003ecparams.mtu from it,\nwhich also removes the double psched_mtu() call.\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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