# 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-2026-93186"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:12.121Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:52:14.075Z"
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-2026-93186"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93186.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93186"
title: "cxl/mbox: Clamp mailbox output allocation to the payload size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/mbox: Clamp mailbox output allocation to the payload size\n\nCXL_MEM_SEND_COMMAND bounds the user's in.size to the mailbox payload\nsize but leaves out.size unbounded, then cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor() calls\nkvzalloc(out.size). A large out.size drives a huge allocation, above\nINT_MAX it WARNs and taints, and with panic_on_warn=1 it panics.\n\nThe transport __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd() already clamps the response copy\nto min(out.size, payload_size, device len), so the output buffer is\nnever written beyond payload_size. Clamp the allocation to payload_size\ntoo, matching the RAW path."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"583fa5e71caeb79e04e477e9837e2f7fa53b71e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2d40574b9b272ade32d0d77b140d990e7547f5f"},{"version":"583fa5e71caeb79e04e477e9837e2f7fa53b71e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5d2bbf0300f46307948864fbb97bce5097f4fe2"},{"version":"583fa5e71caeb79e04e477e9837e2f7fa53b71e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31d4841eca7c4b75751ca96d24339e19303337f2"},{"version":"583fa5e71caeb79e04e477e9837e2f7fa53b71e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4e11c731d6bee3b87315e055a1ca417c92dc1fc"},{"version":"583fa5e71caeb79e04e477e9837e2f7fa53b71e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a13db9f899d149c3aab24abcb668121cfda5a4f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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