diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63f0c3d0..4e5a5f68 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 * Fixed compatibility with NumPy 2.5 by replacing the deprecated in-place array `shape` assignment with `reshape`, and by replacing the deprecated `numpy.testing.suppress_warnings` usage in tests with `pytest.warns` [gh-137](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_random/pull/137)
+* Fixed a constant integer overflow in `irk_rand_uint32_vec` by declaring the `shift` variable as `npy_uint32` instead of `npy_int32`, so `2**31` no longer overflows a signed 32-bit integer (behavior is unchanged as all downstream uses rely on modulo-2^32 arithmetic)
 
 ## [1.4.1] (05/11/2026)
 
diff --git a/mkl_random/src/mkl_distributions.cpp b/mkl_random/src/mkl_distributions.cpp
index 20c37a35..8fa67d96 100644
--- a/mkl_random/src/mkl_distributions.cpp
+++ b/mkl_random/src/mkl_distributions.cpp
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ void irk_rand_uint32_vec(irk_state *state,
 
     if (hi >= intm) {
 
-        npy_int32 shift = ((npy_uint32)intm) + ((npy_uint32)1);
+        npy_uint32 shift = ((npy_uint32)intm) + ((npy_uint32)1);
         int i;
 
         /* if lo is non-zero, shift one more to accommodate possibility of hi