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CVE-2026-68255: drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-10 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 5.0 — fixed in 7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2757e6e803092cf0aeaf4b735e16b5d3bdc705c5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35be0e2c6862abcd5e5f5445261f1fd910d4a9b4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/375c1934ef0196d3b6d3a1eae3232bef8dae7bf7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f506a85a905b080cadc029a1651a310479090a6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1a53892ba7f8a3e1da6bfc53c83ae7c812dccd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64bedd2758eccbc74d39f7006a7ec16fa39dc901
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ce911f341ad8ff0c08922eff5bb6db75666eb0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fc2a017c5d597937e0c28b9a9669844aa796c42

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