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THREAT OPSThreat 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

mednvdPublished 2026-08-10

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

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68253