{"id":"CVE-2026-43417","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-43417","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:42:13.613Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/mmcid: Handle vfork()/CLONE_VM correctly Matthieu and Jiri reported stalls where a task endlessly loops in mm_get_cid() when scheduling in.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/mmcid: Handle vfork()/CLONE_VM correctly\n\nMatthieu and Jiri reported stalls where a task endlessly loops in\nmm_get_cid() when scheduling in.\n\nIt turned out that the logic which handles vfork()'ed tasks is broken. It\nis invoked when the number of tasks associated to a process is smaller than\nthe number of MMCID users. It then walks the task list to find the\nvfork()'ed task, but accounts all the already processed tasks as well.\n\nIf that double processing brings the number of to be handled tasks to 0,\nthe walk stops and the vfork()'ed task's CID is not fixed up. As a\nconsequence a subsequent schedule in fails to acquire a (transitional) CID\nand the machine stalls.\n\nCure this by removing the accounting condition and make the fixup always\nwalk the full task list if it could not find the exact number of users in\nthe process' thread list.","published":"2026-05-08T15:16:54.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:49:34.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00107,"percentile":0.01162,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28b5a1395036d6c7a6c8034d85ad3d7d365f192c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6761cdce78a8919a537989afb6aaf6881469f83","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43417","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}