# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93053"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:42.397Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:48.197Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-93053"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93053.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93053"
title: "speakup: keyhelp: guard letter_offsets possible out-of-range indexing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspeakup: keyhelp: guard letter_offsets possible out-of-range indexing\n\nhelp_init() builds letter_offsets[] by using the first byte of each\nfunction name as an index via `(start & 31) - 1`. If function_names are\noverridden from sysfs (root) with a name starting outside [a–z], the\nindex underflows or exceeds the array, leading to OOB write.\n\nFunction names can be overridden with the following commands as root:\n\n    modprobe speakup_soft\n    echo \"0 _bad\" \u003e /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/function_names\n    # then press Insert+2 on /dev/tty\n\nThis fix checks the first letter in help_init(), and if it is not in the\n[a–z] range the function returns an error to the caller. Eventually this\nerror is propagated to drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c:2217, which\ncauses a bleep sound."
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