# 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-2026-72349"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:52.916Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:12:58.965Z"
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-2026-72349"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72349.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72349"
title: "netfilter: xt_rateest: fix u64 truncation in xt_rateest_mt()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: xt_rateest: fix u64 truncation in xt_rateest_mt()\n\nOn links faster than ~34 Gbps, where byte rate may exceed 2^32-1\n(~ 4.3 GBps), the comparison result becomes incorrect because the\ntruncated value no longer reflects the actual estimator rate.\n\nFix by changing the local variables to u64."
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