CVE-2026-68255 PUBLISHED

drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer

virtio_get_edid_block() validates the read offset only against the device-supplied resp->size field, never against the fixed-size resp->edid array. The EDID block index is driven by the device-supplied extension count, so a malicious virtio-gpu backend can advertise a large size together with a high block count and read far past the array into adjacent kernel memory, which is then surfaced in the parsed EDID (an out-of-bounds read / info leak).

Also reject any read whose end exceeds the size of the edid array. Conforming EDID responses stay within the array and are unaffected.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b4b01b4995fb15b55a2d067eb405917f5ab32709 to 9fc2a017c5d597937e0c28b9a9669844aa796c42 (excl.)
  • affected from b4b01b4995fb15b55a2d067eb405917f5ab32709 to 2757e6e803092cf0aeaf4b735e16b5d3bdc705c5 (excl.)
  • affected from b4b01b4995fb15b55a2d067eb405917f5ab32709 to 35be0e2c6862abcd5e5f5445261f1fd910d4a9b4 (excl.)
  • affected from b4b01b4995fb15b55a2d067eb405917f5ab32709 to 375c1934ef0196d3b6d3a1eae3232bef8dae7bf7 (excl.)
  • affected from b4b01b4995fb15b55a2d067eb405917f5ab32709 to 4e1a53892ba7f8a3e1da6bfc53c83ae7c812dccd (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc2 to * (incl.)

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