CVE-2026-68230 media: amlogic-c3: Add validations for ae and awb config
A buffer overflow in the Amlogic C3 ISP driver allows attackers to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to system crashes or arbitrary code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-68230?
CVE-2026-68230 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: amlogic-c3: Add validations for ae and awb config
Avoid invalid memory access if the zones_num is bigger than zone_weight.
This patch fixes the following smatch errors: drivers/media/platform/amlogic/c3/isp/c3-isp-params.c:111 c3_isp_params_awb_wt() error: buffer overflow 'cfg->zone_weight' 768 <= u32max drivers/media/platform/amlogic/c3/isp/c3-isp-params.c:111 c3_isp_params_awb_wt() error: buffer overflow 'cfg->zone_weight' 768 <= u32max drivers/media/platform/amlogic/c3/isp/c3-isp-params.c:227 c3_isp_params_ae_wt() error: buffer overflow 'cfg->zone_weight' 255 <= u32max drivers/media/platform/amlogic/c3/isp/c3-isp-params.c:227 c3_isp_params_ae_wt() error: buffer overflow 'cfg->zone_weight' 255 <= u32max
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68230?
How do I fix CVE-2026-68230?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2026-68230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-68230, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68230, GHSA-mgwm-9whm-8cxc, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68230.