drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.266, 5.15.217, 6.1.183, 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 6 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-68255
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ww5r-hf7r-8fmv
- 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-20 Weakness changed · CISA ADP
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ce911f341ad8ff0c08922eff5bb6db75666eb0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64bedd2758eccbc74d39f7006a7ec16fa39dc901
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f506a85a905b080cadc029a1651a310479090a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fc2a017c5d597937e0c28b9a9669844aa796c42
- 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/4e1a53892ba7f8a3e1da6bfc53c83ae7c812dccd
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Sources
- CVE-2026-68255 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-68255 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ww5r-hf7r-8fmv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-68255 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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