# 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-2026-68279"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:09.423Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:16.563Z"
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-2026-68279"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68279.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68279"
title: "drm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads in remote DPCD/I2C sideband reply parsers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads in remote DPCD/I2C sideband reply parsers\n\ndrm_dp_sideband_parse_remote_dpcd_read() reads num_bytes from the raw\nmessage and then unconditionally does:\n\n  memcpy(bytes, &raw-\u003emsg[idx], num_bytes);\n\nwithout checking that idx + num_bytes \u003c= raw-\u003ecurlen. raw-\u003emsg[] is\n256 bytes; if a malicious or misbehaving MST hub sets num_bytes larger\nthan the remaining payload, the memcpy reads past the received data\ninto whatever follows in raw-\u003emsg[].\n\ndrm_dp_sideband_parse_remote_i2c_read_ack() has the same flaw (noted\nwith a /* TODO check */ comment since the code was introduced).\n\nFix both functions by using a single combined check\n(idx + num_bytes \u003e curlen) before each memcpy. Since num_bytes is u8,\nit is always \u003e= 0, so this strictly subsumes the simpler idx \u003e curlen\nform and no separate step is needed.\n\n[added missing fixes tag]"
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