CVE-2026-53138: drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-06-25 · updated 2026-07-07
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops [Why & How] All record-chain walk loops in bios_parser.c and bios_parser2.c use for(;;) and only terminate on a 0xFF record_type sentinel or zero record_size. A malformed VBIOS image missing the terminator record causes unbounded iteration at probe time, potentially hundreds of thousands of iterations with record_size=1. In the final iterations near the BIOS image boundary, struct casts beyond the 2-byte header validated by GET_IMAGE can also read out of bounds. Cap all 14 record-chain walk loops to BIOS_MAX_NUM_RECORD (256) iterations. The atombios.h defines up to 22 distinct record types and atomfirmware.h has 13. Assuming an average of less than 10 records per type (which is reasonable since most are connector- based) 256 is a generous upper bound. (cherry picked from commit 95700a3d660287ed657d6892f7be9ffc0e294a93)

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 4.15 before 5.10.260; from 5.11 before 5.15.211; from 5.16 before 6.1.177; from 6.2 before 6.6.144; from 6.7 before 6.12.94; from 6.13 before 6.18.36 — fixed in 5.10.260, 5.15.211, 6.1.177, 6.12.94, 6.18.36, 6.6.144

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.260, 5.15.211, 6.1.177, 6.12.94. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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