# 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-2026-90076"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:55.517Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:41.565Z"
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-2026-90076"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90076.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90076"
title: "net/sched: fq: add overflow bounds to quantum and initial quantum"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: fq: add overflow bounds to quantum and initial quantum\n\nfq_init() computes quantum = 2 * psched_mtu() and initial_quantum = 10 *\npsched_mtu() with no overflow check. A device with a huge MTU (e.g. dummy\nwith max_mtu == 0 accepting MTU 2147483634) makes psched_mtu() return\n0x80000000; the 2 * and 10 * multiplications wrap to 0 in 32-bit\narithmetic, so q-\u003equantum == 0. Then in fq_dequeue() the credit-refill\nloop adds 0 to f-\u003ecredit (which stays \u003c= 0) and goto begin loops\nforever under the qdisc lock, creating a soft lockup.\n\nClamp psched_mtu() to [1, 1 \u003c\u003c 20] before multiplying so the product\ncannot wrap, then cap the result at 1 \u003c\u003c 20, matching the bound already\nenforced on TCA_FQ_QUANTUM in fq_change().\n\nConditions to recreate the bug: a device whose MTU (plus\nhard_header_len) is large enough that 2 * psched_mtu() wraps (e.g. a\ndummy device with max_mtu == 0 accepting MTU 2147483634). Requires\nCAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace."
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