CVE-2026-68253 (GCVE-0-2026-68253)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-10 12:01
Modified
2026-08-23 12:46
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/hdcp: check streams[] bounds before overflow
The data->streams[] overflow check is done after the buffer overflow has
already happened. Move the overflow check before the write.
Side note, emitting a warning splat with a backtrace might be overkill
here, but prefer not changing the behaviour other than not doing the
overrun.
Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product
Security.
(cherry picked from commit 9284ab3b6e776c315883ac2611283d263c9460fd)
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 Version: e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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