Bug 2513213 (CVE-2026-68229) - CVE-2026-68229 kernel: Linux kernel: Cedrus driver out-of-bounds read via H.264 reference list entries
Summary: CVE-2026-68229 kernel: Linux kernel: Cedrus driver out-of-bounds read via H.2...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68229
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:25 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:25:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: cedrus: skip invalid H.264 reference list entries

Cedrus consumes H.264 ref_pic_list0/ref_pic_list1 entries from the
stateless slice control and later uses their indices to look up
decode->dpb[] in _cedrus_write_ref_list().

Rejecting such controls in cedrus_try_ctrl() would break existing
userspace, since stateless H.264 reference lists may legitimately carry
out-of-range indices for missing references. Instead, guard the actual
DPB lookup in Cedrus and skip entries whose indices do not fit the fixed
V4L2_H264_NUM_DPB_ENTRIES array.

This keeps the fix local to the driver use site and avoids out-of-bounds
reads from malformed or unsupported reference list entries.


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