{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-89521 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-89521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 11 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-89521 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-89521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 11 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-89521 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-89521/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-89521/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-89521","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-89521/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-89521","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89521","GHSA-2jj9-3xxj-4v43","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89521"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel scheduler","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel scheduler can cause accounting errors and potential denial of service when the runqueue lock is released during task selection.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.3,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/core: Handle pick_task() releasing the rq lock\n\nCore scheduling's pick_next_task() breaks when a -\u003epick_task()\nimplementation can release the rq lock. The selection state derived on entry\nis only valid while the lock is held continuously. Once a pick can drop the\nlock, an interleaving selection can invalidate all of it: the single-CPU\nfast path can commit an uncookied pick although the core went cookied during\nthe release, and forceidle committed by the interleaving selection skews the\nrestarted pass's accounting.\n\nFix it by restarting the whole selection when a pick returns RETRY_TASK\nafter releasing the lock: a single restart point above the state derivation\nreplaces the per-loop restart labels, so a retry picks up state committed by\ninterleaving selections and accounts and resets forceidle like a fresh\nselection would.\n\nneed_sync and fi_before latch across retries. Clock validity can't be\nre-derived - there is no program-ordered way to tell whether the own and\ncore rq clocks are still updated after the lock was released, as other\nlockers' pin cycles may or may not have invalidated them. When restarting,\nclear core_clock_updated so that the sibling loop re-updates the core rq,\nand update the own rq clock if invalidated.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"sched/core: Handle pick_task() releasing the rq lock","id":"CVE-2026-89521","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"race_condition","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path","id":"CVE-2026-89522"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"sched/core: Make core-sched flips wait for in-flight selections","id":"CVE-2026-89520"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-11","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel scheduler can cause accounting errors and potential denial of service when the runqueue lock is released during task selection.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-89521/"}