# 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-2026-68229"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:51.935Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:32:01.546Z"
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-2026-68229"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68229.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68229"
title: "media: cedrus: skip invalid H.264 reference list entries"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: cedrus: skip invalid H.264 reference list entries\n\nCedrus consumes H.264 ref_pic_list0/ref_pic_list1 entries from the\nstateless slice control and later uses their indices to look up\ndecode-\u003edpb[] in _cedrus_write_ref_list().\n\nRejecting such controls in cedrus_try_ctrl() would break existing\nuserspace, since stateless H.264 reference lists may legitimately carry\nout-of-range indices for missing references. Instead, guard the actual\nDPB lookup in Cedrus and skip entries whose indices do not fit the fixed\nV4L2_H264_NUM_DPB_ENTRIES array.\n\nThis keeps the fix local to the driver use site and avoids out-of-bounds\nreads from malformed or unsupported reference list entries."
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