# 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-2026-98011"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:35.338Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:16.718Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98011"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98011.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98011"
title: "net/sched: hhf: clamp quantum in change and init paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: hhf: clamp quantum in change and init paths\n\nhhf_change() accepts any quantum from userspace, including 1. With a\ncrafted size table qdisc_pkt_len reaches ~2 GiB, so quantum=1 makes\nthe deficit-refill loop spin ~2^31 times under the qdisc lock\n(a soft lockup / denial of service).\n\nAdd max(256U, ...) in hhf_change() matching fq_codel_change(). Clamp\nhhf_init() to [256, 1\u003c\u003c20] matching the siblings, and remove the old\nfallback that only set quantum=256 on overflow.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n  CONFIG_NET_SCH_HHF=y. Requires CAP_NET_ADMIN (namespace-local via\n  unshare -Urn suffices).\n\n  tc qdisc add dev dummy0 root hhf\n  tc qdisc change dev dummy0 root hhf quantum 1 stab data 32768 size_log 15 cell_log 0"
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