THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-68253 (HIGH 7.8) — 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
[NVD] CVE-2026-68253 (HIGH 7.8) — 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
CVE-2026-68253 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-10T13:20:13.860
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,
Indicators of compromise
- 9284ab3b6e776c315883ac2611283d263c9460fdsha1
- CVE-2026-68253cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68253