# 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-2026-72326"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:36.811Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:12:32.814Z"
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-2026-72326"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72326.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72326"
title: "net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length\n\nCAKE accepts signed overhead values and stores them in an s16, but the\nadjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned arithmetic.  A negative\neffective length can therefore wrap to a large value.\n\nSuch configurations make rate accounting depend on integer wraparound\nrather than on the packet size userspace intended to model.  A static\nnetlink lower bound is not enough because packets reaching CAKE can be\nsmaller than any reasonable manual-overhead allowance.\n\nFold the signed overhead adjustment into the existing datapath MPU clamp\nso negative adjusted lengths are clamped before link-layer framing\nadjustments."
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