CVE-2026-45958 PUBLISHED

drm/exynos: vidi: fix to avoid directly dereferencing user pointer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/exynos: vidi: fix to avoid directly dereferencing user pointer

In vidi_connection_ioctl(), vidi->edid(user pointer) is directly dereferenced in the kernel.

This allows arbitrary kernel memory access from the user space, so instead of directly accessing the user pointer in the kernel, we should modify it to copy edid to kernel memory using copy_from_user() and use it.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 13537f7f6d28a87ee2e496e071b6ad9541905f23 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to c2914c0ca7557c6c5c845621cb6d6c9f26ab5a8c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7efb6a4e6b1b523e744d17e6249757ed97caae7c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 2e147aa3169b83eaf044776f81d86235bf147de1 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4c4193829109f38b2855de77981adc2e066286c7 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4949e32387fe315b59ad5f422c9fc52836fbdd1e (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 235d702b771416b8a61e81bb09ba39282e4268fd (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to d4c98c077c7fb2dfdece7d605e694b5ea2665085 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 5.10.253 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 5.15.203 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.1.167 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.6.130 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.12.77 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.18.14 (excl.)
  • affected from 0 to 6.19.4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 5.10.253 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.203 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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