# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68206"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:25.309Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:57.229Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68206"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68206.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68206"
title: "media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC active reference counts"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC active reference counts\n\nHEVC slice parameters are shared stateless V4L2 controls, but the common\nvalidation path does not verify the active L0/L1 reference counts before\ndriver-specific code consumes them.\n\nThe original report came from Cedrus, but the active count bounds are\nnot Cedrus-specific. Validate them in the common HEVC slice control path\nso stateless HEVC drivers get the same basic guarantees as soon as the\ncontrol is queued.\n\nDo not reject ref_idx_l0/ref_idx_l1 entries here. Existing userspace may\nuse out-of-range sentinel values such as 0xff for missing references, and\nsome hardware can use that information for concealment. Keep this common\ncheck limited to the active reference counts."
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