# 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-2026-53294"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:52.927Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:52.927Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53294"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53294.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53294"
title: "mailbox: mailbox-test: don't free the reused channel"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmailbox: mailbox-test: don't free the reused channel\n\nThe RX channel can be aliased to the TX channel if it has a different\nMMIO. This special case needs to be handled when freeing the channels\notherwise a double-free occurs."
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