CVE-2026-68277

Summary

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

drm/dp/mst: fix OOB reads on 2-byte fields in sideband reply parsers

Three sideband reply parsers read 16-bit fields as:

val = (raw->msg[idx] << 8) | (raw->msg[idx+1]);

and check bounds only after the fact. When idx == raw->curlen, raw->msg[idx+1] reads one byte past the received message data into the following struct fields (curchunk_len, curchunk_idx, curlen).

Affected functions:

• drm_dp_sideband_parse_enum_path_resources_ack() full_payload_bw_number and avail_payload_bw_number fields
• drm_dp_sideband_parse_allocate_payload_ack() allocated_pbn field
• drm_dp_sideband_parse_query_payload_ack() allocated_pbn field

Fix by using a single combined check (idx + 2 > curlen) before each 2-byte read. Since the check is strictly tighter than idx > curlen, no separate step is needed.

[added fixes tag]

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdf0508b1e6785d4a8982c637e97e68d60b47d7b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bcd7675c69a2462a8531fcd9e4d096e9c7ec5df
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5c70523cafa26ad2c7a37b612849abe2683baa8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a624416d1dd481b3e5b7ea0e8a070a9b8a2c73
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b89ba3dba2f583626fb693e47e951ffb8bf591f

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