Bug 2513301 (CVE-2026-68255) - CVE-2026-68255 kernel: drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer
Summary: CVE-2026-68255 kernel: drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68255
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:29 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-26 12:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:29:44 UTC
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.


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