CVE-2026-68229

media: cedrus: skip invalid H.264 reference list entries

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cedrus: skip invalid H.264 reference list entries Cedrus consumes H.264 ref_pic_list0/ref_pic_list1 entries from the stateless slice control and later uses their indices to look up decode->dpb[] in _cedrus_write_ref_list(). Rejecting such controls in cedrus_try_ctrl() would break existing userspace, since stateless H.264 reference lists may legitimately carry out-of-range indices for missing references. Instead, guard the actual DPB lookup in Cedrus and skip entries whose indices do not fit the fixed V4L2_H264_NUM_DPB_ENTRIES array. This keeps the fix local to the driver use site and avoids out-of-bounds reads from malformed or unsupported reference list entries.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.10 ≤ v < 5.10.2655.10 ≤ v < 5.15.2165.10 ≤ v < 6.1.1835.10 ≤ v < 6.12.1015.10 ≤ v < 6.18.425.10 ≤ v < 6.6.1485.10 ≤ v < 7.1.65.10 ≤ v < 7.25.10e000e1fa4bdbd783149e7f97cf3be61e1c0bab8c
Vendor states this is fixed in 0af8945fcae742d099f59f3c725eb67235953a31 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 10358ea986c3c85516d1c8206486464f79d36e76 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1db34683b0fbbcb3bc162380c11514ea0a44e8ab (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2ee8327c85b3ac7b532d2d6a1e3a295d5ad7414a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7ff6f728a2433b420bb372cb0e8a4eea3f2e1a4b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9924cb548ee7753a6473997949c3ec48092de0b0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a6a109771c51920beb620f30778c29da823cc34c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e53112c2de88982e66c369aee2120d5efd78df30 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
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