# 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-2026-72350"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:53.532Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:19.841Z"
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-2026-72350"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72350.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72350"
title: "netfilter: xt_u32: reject invalid shift counts"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: xt_u32: reject invalid shift counts\n\nu32_match_it() executes rule-supplied shift operands on a 32-bit\nvalue. A malformed u32 rule can provide a shift count of 32 or more,\ntriggering an undefined shift out-of-bounds during packet evaluation.\n\nValidate XT_U32_LEFTSH and XT_U32_RIGHTSH operands in\nu32_mt_checkentry() and reject malformed rules before they reach the\npacket path."
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