CVE-2026-68255CWE-125

CVE-2026-68255

High · published August 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00188 · 8.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-08-10T17:20Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 12:01Z
    drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer
    cvelistv5