CVE-2021-47444

drm/edid: In connector_bad_edid() cap num_of_ext by num_blocks read

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 22, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/edid: In connector_bad_edid() cap num_of_ext by num_blocks read

In commit e11f5bd8228f ("drm: Add support for DP 1.4 Compliance edid corruption test") the function connector_bad_edid() started assuming that the memory for the EDID passed to it was big enough to hold `edid[0x7e] + 1` blocks of data (1 extra for the base block). It completely ignored the fact that the function was passed `num_blocks` which indicated how much memory had been allocated for the EDID.

Let's fix this by adding a bounds check.

This is important for handling the case where there's an error in the first block of the EDID. In that case we will call connector_bad_edid() without having re-allocated memory based on `edid[0x7e]`.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed to before a7b45024f66f9ec769e8dbb1a51ae83cd05929c7Affected
  • e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed to before 09f3946bb452918dbfb1982add56f9ffaae393dcAffected
  • e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed to before 97794170b696856483f74b47bfb6049780d2d3a0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.7Affected
  • before 5.7Not affected
  • 5.10.75 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.14.14 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15 and laterNot affected

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