drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-53138
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

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)

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < e94f5323c41f32a74160378c3b19850d1f203ad5 ; affected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 04e271a952b8863bbafc99bd51aca4c32bff0e0d ; affected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 6723188c42ca3b34a9fce634d7a0ecc9ccd5cd56 ; affected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 499c6b43a79dd684bddbd18fe8b2235aa2764db4 ; affected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 6173cfea2f916e01c4f98e29cd654384a05e32a3 ; affected 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 0e56f460bddb397fa9a8e6faf7ae7eaa86953eb1
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.15 ; unaffected 0 < 4.15 ; unaffected 5.10.260 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.211 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.177 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.144 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD