CVE-2026-45968 (GCVE-0-2026-45968)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:18 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available
On certain platforms (PowerNV systems without a power-mgt DT node),
cpuidle may register only a single idle state. In cases where that
single state is a polling state (state 0), the ladder governor may
incorrectly treat state 1 as the first usable state and pass an
out-of-bounds index. This can lead to a NULL enter callback being
invoked, ultimately resulting in a system crash.
[ 13.342636] cpuidle-powernv : Only Snooze is available
[ 13.351854] Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
[ 13.376489] NIP [0000000000000000] 0x0
[ 13.378351] LR [c000000001e01974] cpuidle_enter_state+0x2c4/0x668
Fix this by adding a bail-out in cpuidle_select() that returns state 0
directly when state_count <= 1, bypassing the governor and keeping the
tick running.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < a0f7e804edc82e513d1ccb7c95ed8b351522ec81
(git)
Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < 5d103a38e2ae96eca57fd17161bcd29bd4622d1c (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < 4da2b897283c39980d6ae09dc1560fcd937879e5 (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < 5c577ac939bca486cb02069505cfe47a5312ce02 (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < 8f6833d919bae915ead6c599a53e81e19b32da52 (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < 63ae78336f40bcd9a44952a7c6bafb9c88a8effd (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < a0724e40a58a0e323c59707edeae5b71d15800dc (git) Affected: dc2251bf98c66db3f4e055b751968f0871037ae4 , < e5c9ffc6ae1bcdb1062527d611043681ac301aca (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.