Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: sch_fq: fix integer overflow of "credit" if sch_fq is configured with "initial quantum" having values greater than INT_MAX, the first assignment of "credit" does signed integer overflow to a very negative value. In this situation, the syzkaller script provided by Cristoph triggers the CPU soft-lockup warning even with few sockets. It's not an infinite loop, but "credit" wasn't probably meant to be minus 2Gb for each new flow. Capping "initial quantum" to INT_MAX proved to fix the issue. v2: validation of "initial quantum" is done in fq_policy, instead of open coding in fq_change() _ suggested by Jakub Kicinski
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References6
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2322462d6f9ad4874f4e3c63df3b5cc00cb1acbd Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b8a05e3801661a0438fcd0cdef181030d966a5a Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fbefeab88c6e79753a25099d455d3d59d2946b4 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7041101ff6c3073fd8f2e99920f535b111c929cb Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f24cb2f10b2b0f2882e5786a09b4790bb3a0ad Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0b43125ec892aeb1b03e5df5aab595097da225a Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.5
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 11 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-190
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