CVE-2025-68184

Display corruption via broken AFBC modifier support

Published Dec 16, 2025 · Updated Dec 16, 2025

AFBC handling flaw in the Linux MediaTek DRM driver on MT8188 causes garbled rendering and recurring vblank timeouts during display use. The driver advertises the 32x8, split, sparse AFBC modifier even though its MT8188 display path cannot correctly consume the resulting buffers selected by Mesa. Exposure requires a MediaTek Genio 700 EVK-class MT8188 system and Mesa 25.0 or later using AFBC; the documented consequence is corrupted output and repeated timeout warnings.

CVSS severityUnavailable
Unscored
EPSS probability0.15%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

AFBC handling flaw in the Linux MediaTek DRM driver on MT8188 causes garbled rendering and recurring vblank timeouts during display use. The driver advertises the 32x8, split, sparse AFBC modifier even though its MT8188 display path cannot correctly consume the resulting buffers selected by Mesa. Exposure requires a MediaTek Genio 700 EVK-class MT8188 system and Mesa 25.0 or later using AFBC; the documented consequence is corrupted output and repeated timeout warnings.

The record

CVE
CVE-2025-68184
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Dec 16, 2025
Vendor
The Linux Kernel Organization
Product
Linux
Classifications
Unavailable
Attack vector
Unavailable
Privileges
Unavailable

Timeline

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  1. Dec 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Dec 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

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  1. Affected versionversion=6.2
  2. Affected versionversion=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <0eaa0a3dfe218c4cf1a0782ccbbc9e3931718f17
  3. Affected versionversion=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <72223700b620885d556a4c52a63f5294316176c6
  4. Affected versionversion=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <9882a40640036d5bbc590426a78981526d4f2345
  5. Affected versionversion=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <df1ad5de2197ea1b527d13ae7b699e9ee7d724d4

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What is affected?

The Linux Kernel Organization · Linuxversion=6.2; version=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <0eaa0a3dfe218c4cf1a0782ccbbc9e3931718f17; version=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <72223700b620885d556a4c52a63f5294316176c6; version=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <9882a40640036d5bbc590426a78981526d4f2345; version=c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4 <df1ad5de2197ea1b527d13ae7b699e9ee7d724d4

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
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VectorUnavailable
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Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

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