# 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-2026-53306"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-26T19:41:01.338Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-26T19:41:01.338Z"
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-2026-53306"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53306.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53306"
title: "tty: hvc_iucv: fix off-by-one in number of supported devices"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: hvc_iucv: fix off-by-one in number of supported devices\n\nMAX_HVC_IUCV_LINES == HVC_ALLOC_TTY_ADAPTERS == 8.\nThis is the number of entries in:\n  static struct hvc_iucv_private *hvc_iucv_table[MAX_HVC_IUCV_LINES];\n\nSometimes hvc_iucv_table[] is limited by:\n(a)\tif (num \u003e hvc_iucv_devices) // for error detection\nor\n(b)\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c hvc_iucv_devices; i++) // in 2 places\n(so these 2 don't agree; second one appears to be correct to me.)\n\nhvc_iucv_devices can be 0..8. This is a counter.\n(c)\tif (hvc_iucv_devices \u003e MAX_HVC_IUCV_LINES)\n\nIf hvc_iucv_devices == 8, (a) allows the code to access hvc_iucv_table[8].\nOops."
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