diff --git a/internal/vgpu/pciutil.go b/internal/vgpu/pciutil.go
index ea16649612..5a5cb77098 100644
--- a/internal/vgpu/pciutil.go
+++ b/internal/vgpu/pciutil.go
@@ -137,7 +137,14 @@ func (d *PCIDevice) GetVendorSpecificCapability() ([]byte, error) {
 			break
 		}
 		if id == PciCapabilityVendorSpecificID {
-			capability := d.Config[pos+PciCapabilityListID : pos+PciCapabilityListID+length]
+			start := int(pos) + PciCapabilityListID
+			if length == 0 || start+int(length) > len(d.Config) {
+				// Malformed capability record (e.g. length read from PCI
+				// config space exceeds the buffer). Skip it instead of
+				// panicking so a single bad device can't crash GFD.
+				return nil, nil
+			}
+			capability := d.Config[start : start+int(length)]
 			return capability, nil
 		}
 
diff --git a/internal/vgpu/pciutil_test.go b/internal/vgpu/pciutil_test.go
index eaacff6090..cc88ee990a 100644
--- a/internal/vgpu/pciutil_test.go
+++ b/internal/vgpu/pciutil_test.go
@@ -40,3 +40,23 @@ func TestGetVendorSpecificCapability(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestGetVendorSpecificCapabilityMalformedLength(t *testing.T) {
+	// A truncated config (or a device exposing a malformed vendor-specific
+	// capability record whose length field makes start+length exceed the
+	// buffer) must not panic. It should be skipped so a single bad device
+	// can't crash gpu-feature-discovery.
+	config := make([]byte, 256)
+	config[PciStatusByte] |= PciStatusCapabilityList
+	// Point the capability list at offset 224 and mark it vendor-specific.
+	config[PciCapabilityList] = 224
+	config[224+PciCapabilityListID] = PciCapabilityVendorSpecificID
+	config[224+PciCapabilityListNext] = 0
+	config[224+PciCapabilityLength] = 40
+	// 224 + 40 == 264 which is past the 256-byte buffer.
+
+	device := &PCIDevice{Address: "malformed", Config: config}
+	capability, err := device.GetVendorSpecificCapability()
+	require.NoError(t, err, "malformed capability length must not panic")
+	require.Nil(t, capability, "malformed capability record should be skipped")
+}