# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72253"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:41.490Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:13.536Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72253"
title: "netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: validate skb_dst() before accessing it"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: validate skb_dst() before accessing it\n\ntc ingress and openvswitch do not guarantee routing information to be\navailable. These subsystems use the conntrack helper infrastructure, and\nthe SIP helper relies on the skb_dst() to be present if\nsip_external_media is set to 1 (which is disabled by default as a module\nparameter).\n\nThis effectively disables the sip_external_media toggle for these\nsubsystems without resulting in a crash."
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