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CVE-2026-53138

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)

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53138
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-25 08:38 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-25 08:38 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 6173cfea2f916e01c4f98e29cd654384a05e32a3, 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 0e56f460bddb397fa9a8e6faf7ae7eaa86953eb1, 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < 2645e3caf7e013189da9c6ff621d006cca5a538b, 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c < ff287df16a1a58aca78b08d1f3ee09fc44da0351
Linux Linux 4.15, 0 < 4.15, 6.12.94 ≤ 6.12.*, 6.18.36 ≤ 6.18.* …
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