CVE-2021-47444

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.7-5.10.75 5.14.14-5.14.* 5.15 - Out-of-Bounds Read in DRM EDID Parser

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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]`.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 5.10.75 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.14.14 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.7
Linux/Linux e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed - 09f3946bb452918dbfb1982add56f9ffaae393dc
Linux/Linux e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed - 97794170b696856483f74b47bfb6049780d2d3a0
Linux/Linux e11f5bd8228fc3760c221f940b9f6365dbf3e7ed - a7b45024f66f9ec769e8dbb1a51ae83cd05929c7
linux/linux_kernel 5.15 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.7 - 5.10.75
Published May 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026