# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49218"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:51.646Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:55:26.026Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49218"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49218.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49218"
title: "drm/dp: Fix OOB read when handling Post Cursor2 register"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/dp: Fix OOB read when handling Post Cursor2 register\n\nThe link_status array was not large enough to read the Adjust Request\nPost Cursor2 register, so remove the common helper function to avoid\nan OOB read, found with a -Warray-bounds build:\n\ndrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c: In function 'drm_dp_get_adjust_request_post_cursor':\ndrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c:59:27: error: array subscript 10 is outside array bounds of 'const u8[6]' {aka 'const unsigned char[6]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]\n   59 |         return link_status[r - DP_LANE0_1_STATUS];\n      |                ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ndrivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c:147:51: note: while referencing 'link_status'\n  147 | u8 drm_dp_get_adjust_request_post_cursor(const u8 link_status[DP_LINK_STATUS_SIZE],\n      |                                          ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nReplace the only user of the helper with an open-coded fetch and decode,\nsimilar to drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c."
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