# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53036"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:43.449Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:32:47.252Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53036"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53036.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53036"
title: "bpf, arm64: Fix off-by-one in check_imm signed range check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, arm64: Fix off-by-one in check_imm signed range check\n\ncheck_imm(bits, imm) is used in the arm64 BPF JIT to verify that\na branch displacement (in arm64 instruction units) fits into the\nsigned N-bit immediate field of a B, B.cond or CBZ/CBNZ encoding\nbefore it is handed to the encoder. The macro currently tests for\n(imm \u003e 0 && imm \u003e\u003e bits) || (imm \u003c 0 && ~imm \u003e\u003e bits) which admits\nvalues in [-2^N, 2^N) — effectively a signed (N+1)-bit range. A\nsigned N-bit field only holds [-2^(N-1), 2^(N-1)), so the check\nadmits one extra bit of range on each side.\n\nIn particular, for check_imm19(), values in [2^18, 2^19) slip past\nthe check but do not fit into the 19-bit signed imm19 field of\nB.cond. aarch64_insn_encode_immediate() then masks the raw value\ninto the 19-bit field, setting bit 18 (the sign bit) and flipping\na forward branch into a backward one. Same class of issue exists\nfor check_imm26() and the B/BL encoding. Shift by (bits - 1)\ninstead of bits so the actual signed N-bit range is enforced."
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