# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68217"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:57:12.011Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:48:59.173Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68217"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68217.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68217"
title: "Input: pegasus-notetaker - fix potential out-of-bounds access"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: pegasus-notetaker - fix potential out-of-bounds access\n\nIn the pegasus_notetaker driver, the pegasus_probe() function allocates\nthe URB transfer buffer using the wMaxPacketSize value from\nthe endpoint descriptor. An attacker can use a malicious USB descriptor\nto force the allocation of a very small buffer.\n\nSubsequently, if the device sends an interrupt packet with a specific\npattern (e.g., where the first byte is 0x80 or 0x42),\nthe pegasus_parse_packet() function parses the packet without checking\nthe allocated buffer size. This leads to an out-of-bounds memory access."
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