# 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-2026-43281"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:29:02.278Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:15:32.145Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43281"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43281.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43281"
title: "mailbox: Prevent out-of-bounds access in fw_mbox_index_xlate()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmailbox: Prevent out-of-bounds access in fw_mbox_index_xlate()\n\nAlthough it is guided that `#mbox-cells` must be at least 1, there are\nmany instances of `#mbox-cells = \u003c0\u003e;` in the device tree. If that is\nthe case and the corresponding mailbox controller does not provide\n`fw_xlate` and of_xlate` function pointers, `fw_mbox_index_xlate()` will\nbe used by default and out-of-bounds accesses could occur due to lack of\nbounds check in that function."
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