In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
workqueue: Fix UBSAN 'subtraction overflow' error in shift_and_mask()
UBSAN reports the following 'subtraction overflow' error when booting
in a virtual machine on Android:
| Internal error: UBSAN: integer subtraction overflow: 00000000f2005515 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.10.0-00006-g3cbe9e5abd46-dirty #4
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : cancel_delayed_work+0x34/0x44
| lr : cancel_delayed_work+0x2c/0x44
| sp : ffff80008002ba60
| x29: ffff80008002ba60 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
| x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
| x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff1f65014cd3c0
| x20: ffffc0e84c9d0da0 x19: ffffc0e84cab3558 x18: ffff800080009058
| x17: 00000000247ee1f8 x16: 00000000247ee1f8 x15: 00000000bdcb279d
| x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000075 x12: 00000a0000000000
| x11: ffff1f6501499018 x10: 00984901651fffff x9 : ffff5e7cc35af000
| x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 3d4d455453595342 x6 : 000000004e514553
| x5 : ffff1f6501499265 x4 : ffff1f650ff60b10 x3 : 0000000000000620
| x2 : ffff80008002ba78 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
| Call trace:
| cancel_delayed_work+0x34/0x44
| deferred_probe_extend_timeout+0x20/0x70
| driver_register+0xa8/0x110
| __platform_driver_register+0x28/0x3c
| syscon_init+0x24/0x38
| do_one_initcall+0xe4/0x338
| do_initcall_level+0xac/0x178
| do_initcalls+0x5c/0xa0
| do_basic_setup+0x20/0x30
| kernel_init_freeable+0x8c/0xf8
| kernel_init+0x28/0x1b4
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: f9000fbf 97fffa2f 39400268 37100048 (d42aa2a0)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
| Kernel panic - not syncing: UBSAN: integer subtraction overflow: Fatal exception
This is due to shift_and_mask() using a signed immediate to construct
the mask and being called with a shift of 31 (WORK_OFFQ_POOL_SHIFT) so
that it ends up decrementing from INT_MIN.
Use an unsigned constant '1U' to generate the mask in shift_and_mask().
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it