THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-68279 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads in remote DPCD/I2C sideband reply parsers
drm_dp_sideband_parse_remote_dpcd_read() reads num_bytes from the raw
message and then unconditionally does:
memcpy(bytes, &raw->msg[idx],
[NVD] CVE-2026-68279 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads in remote DPCD/I2C sideband reply parsers drm_dp_sideband_parse_remote_dpcd_read() reads num_bytes from the raw message and then unconditionally does: memcpy(bytes, &raw->msg[idx],
CVE-2026-68279 CVSS: None Published: 2026-08-10T13:20:17.047
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads in remote DPCD/I2C sideband reply parsers
drm_dp_sideband_parse_remote_dpcd_read() reads num_bytes from the raw message and then unconditionally does:
memcpy(bytes, &raw->msg[idx], num_bytes);
without checking that idx + num_bytes <= raw
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-68279cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68279