Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-core package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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].

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47444
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09f3946bb452918dbfb1982add56f9ffaae393dc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97794170b696856483f74b47bfb6049780d2d3a0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b45024f66f9ec769e8dbb1a51ae83cd05929c7