CVE-2026-53295 PUBLISHED

mailbox: add sanity check for channel array

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 26.06.2026 Updated: 26.06.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mailbox: add sanity check for channel array

Fail gracefully if there is no channel array attached to the mailbox controller. Otherwise the later dereference will cause an OOPS which might not be seen because mailbox controllers might instantiate very early. Remove the comment explaining the obvious while here.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 5cc3300fab262b26c28bc2fc06df693410c3840b (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 0f11444271110d9b5bc6316a153c6431abda899c (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to d44872a569b8fbacde457ff2587a775e5004bb79 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 14aed0d4e58389cc6a88acf8610b12d3e476272b (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 6362c4a7d7e21e68cd9aa04df7cde16befba3a4b (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 9dd7489943324298bb0f385495795a82f1dd6507 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to 37792091ab28ba030fd8d61184c47d4d51294170 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b6d83e2b8b7de82331a6a1dcd64b51020a6031c to c1aad75595fb67edc7fda8af249d3b886efa1be9 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.258 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.209 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.175 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.141 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.91 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.33 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.10 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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