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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90100"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:11.515Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:58.302Z"
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-2026-90100"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90100.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90100"
title: "ptp: netc: fix period truncation and potential divide-by-zero in PEROUT"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nptp: netc: fix period truncation and potential divide-by-zero in PEROUT\n\nThe max_period bound in net_timer_enable_perout() was computed as:\n\n  max_period = (u64)NETC_TMR_DEFAULT_FIPER + integral_period;\n\nwhich exceeds U32_MAX when integral_period \u003e 0 (e.g. 0x100000002 for\nthe default 333333333 Hz clock). A period_ns that passes this check but\nexceeds U32_MAX is then silently truncated when stored into the u32\nstruct netc_pp::period field.\n\nA truncated value of zero can reach netc_timer_set_perout_alarm(), where\nthe local u32 period variable would also be 0, causing a divide-by-zero\nin roundup_u64(delta, period) whenever the stime \u003c min_time branch is\ntaken (which always happens for a start time of {0, 0}).\n\nAdditionally, netc_timer_enable_periodic_pulse() and\nnetc_timer_enable_fiper() both compute:\n\n  fiper = pp-\u003eperiod - integral_period;\n\nA zero pp-\u003eperiod results in an unsigned wraparound to 0xFFFFFFFD,\nmis-programming the FIPER hardware register.\n\nFix all three issues by capping max_period at NETC_TMR_DEFAULT_FIPER\n(0xFFFFFFFF). This ensures that any period_ns passing the range check\nfits in a u32 without truncation, so the stored value is always valid\nand non-zero. The accepted range is reduced by integral_period ns\n(typically only a few nanoseconds), which is negligible in practice."
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