CVE-2026-89517

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's schedext component, which handles core scheduling. When multiple selections on the same core interleave due to a dropped lock, they can corrupt the scheduling state. This corruption can lead to a NULL dereference, tasks remaining active after being dequeued,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89517

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: schedext: Fix rq-corepick corruption under core scheduling Core scheduling's picknexttask picks what to run on every SMT sibling of the core in a single pass under the shared core-wide rq lock. The selection state is consistent...