Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY
Adam reports that enabling NEXT_BUDDY insta triggers a WARN in
pick_next_entity().
Moving clear_buddies() up before the delayed dequeue bits ensures
no ->next buddy becomes delayed. Further ensure no new ->next buddy
ever starts as delayed.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)