# 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-2026-72450"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:58.939Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:24.828Z"
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-2026-72450"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72450.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72450"
title: "xfrm: validate selector family and prefixlen during match"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: validate selector family and prefixlen during match\n\nsyzbot reported a shift-out-of-bounds in xfrm_selector_match()\ndue to AF_UNSPEC selector with large prefixlen (e.g. 128) matched\nagainst IPv4 flow (when XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC is set).\n\nFix this by:\n\n- Rejecting mismatched families in xfrm_selector_match.\n- Returning false in addr4_match if prefixlen \u003e 32.\n- Returning false in addr_match if prefixlen \u003e 128 (prevents overflow)."
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