# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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-2026-68253"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:01:19.402Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:58.090Z"
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-2026-68253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68253"
title: "drm/i915/hdcp: check streams[] bounds before overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/i915/hdcp: check streams[] bounds before overflow\n\nThe data-\u003estreams[] overflow check is done after the buffer overflow has\nalready happened. Move the overflow check before the write.\n\nSide note, emitting a warning splat with a backtrace might be overkill\nhere, but prefer not changing the behaviour other than not doing the\noverrun.\n\nDiscovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product\nSecurity.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 9284ab3b6e776c315883ac2611283d263c9460fd)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"336cf6d80d41457442b659e7ba7a7badc0ffe79d"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"389079bf04e6f0c6f10f5b879f6d7a9cf80f0567"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84351f12390349ba010920fc247e1a0b12e41eb3"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2106fb490b2c6003e23ad6ff36ce823a2170e138"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d2ef8d389495e7889c6062d8bddc46d2a5fbdef"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"984085c5b53572e2e03fd5fc4817e86ef1effc6e"},{"version":"e03187e12cae57c09b521b6f7dd7c7f9aa2b62e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbb15a6b042d02e5508a02b4847e02d2579ee7bc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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