# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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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-2026-53296"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:54.341Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:54.341Z"
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-2026-53296"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53296.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53296"
title: "mailbox: mailbox-test: free channels on probe error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmailbox: mailbox-test: free channels on probe error\n\nOn probe error, free the previously obtained channels. This not only\nprevents a leak, but also UAF scenarios because the client structure\nwill be removed nonetheless because it was allocated with devm."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ad8c4a03a358de7811ba1ab8cbd1fe76ad0ff6b"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15c4cc3850cfe1b973eb7b63c02314b267f06a64"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"187069ccc3474516af32350e20d7e449160fa6de"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81c9e7e4030e71391ab479c4c6e17b64802577aa"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c6ce2ccb4fcf1617fec83f91b21aa0265f30701"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"742001919653e7313b4e91780c5d108be1692365"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02beb178e2e159daeb8f992d7abb16a37da31664"},{"version":"8ea4484d0c2bb4e2152261943fa1a3522654b1c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c02053a9055d5fdfd32432287cca8958db1d5bc5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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