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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93182" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:09.381Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:06:55.184Z" 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-2026-93182" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93182.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93182" title: "sched/fair: Fix overflow in update_tg_cfs_runnable()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/fair: Fix overflow in update_tg_cfs_runnable()\n\nA divide-by-zero crash is observed when running hackbench:\n\n [14697.488452] CPU: 112 UID: 0 PID: 124791 Comm: hackbench Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2+\n [14697.492627] RIP: 0010:propagate_entity_load_avg+0x35f/0x3e0\n [14697.506799] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [14697.507411] __dequeue_task+0x2b4/0xc70\n [14697.508677] dequeue_task_fair+0x36/0x370\n [14697.509047] dequeue_task+0x101/0x2f0\n [14697.509426] __schedule+0x1b1/0x1a00\n [14697.510868] anon_pipe_read+0x3da/0x450\n [14697.511400] vfs_read+0x361/0x390\n [14697.512053] __x64_sys_read+0x19/0x30\n\nThe divide-by-zero happens here:\n\n if (scale_load_down(gcfs_rq-\u003eload.weight)) {\n load_sum = div_u64(gcfs_rq-\u003eavg.load_sum,\n scale_load_down(gcfs_rq-\u003eload.weight));\n }\n\ngcfs_rq-\u003eload.weight is an insane large value and is truncated\nto the lower 32 bits by div_u64, which happen to be 0.\n\nUsing AI for investigation, the cause is a u32 overflow in\nupdate_tg_cfs_runnable(), and flat pickup became a victim when using\ntg_tasks():\n\n u32 new_sum, divider;\n ...\n new_sum = se-\u003eavg.runnable_avg * divider; \u003c-- boom\n\nThe following sequence shows how this triggers the crash:\n\n propagate_entity_load_avg()\n update_tg_cfs_runnable() # u32 overflow corrupts runnable_sum\n\n __update_load_avg_cfs_rq()\n ___update_load_avg() # computes insane runnable_avg\n update_tg_load_avg() # propagates to tg-\u003erunnable_avg\n\n update_cfs_group()\n calc_concur_shares()\n tg_tasks() # long-to-int truncation, negative nr\n reweight_entity() # corrupted se-\u003eload.weight\n update_load_add() # corrupted cfs_rq-\u003eload.weight\n\n propagate_entity_load_avg()\n update_tg_cfs_load()\n div_u64() # divide-by-zero\n\nFix by widening new_sum from u32 to u64 (no need to force tg_tasks()\nto return unsigned long after this fix)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39d707097a0820c6e87eff4195f0940e8ff1147e"},{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69fafae4eb2c9fc9bcff1bcbfcccf5d197434d75"},{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7cc237e3bc1733928313d2462b413ae441b0eef3"},{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18fdd0978ec3dda0ff6865cd273e47e022180710"},{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f94e62d21faad5e244d0874598a4d0ebbc0ea405"},{"version":"95246d1ec80b8d19d882cd8eb7ad094e63b41bb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f166adb5cb0525d9e32d45729fd8f28c80acbee"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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