# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53138"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:26.859Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-04T11:50:51.199Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53138"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53138.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53138"
title: "drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops\n\n[Why & How]\nAll record-chain walk loops in bios_parser.c and bios_parser2.c use\nfor(;;) and only terminate on a 0xFF record_type sentinel or zero\nrecord_size. A malformed VBIOS image missing the terminator record\ncauses unbounded iteration at probe time, potentially hundreds of\nthousands of iterations with record_size=1. In the final iterations\nnear the BIOS image boundary, struct casts beyond the 2-byte header\nvalidated by GET_IMAGE can also read out of bounds.\n\nCap all 14 record-chain walk loops to BIOS_MAX_NUM_RECORD (256)\niterations. The atombios.h defines up to 22 distinct record types\nand atomfirmware.h has 13. Assuming an average of less than 10\nrecords per type (which is reasonable since most are connector-\nbased) 256 is a generous upper bound.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 95700a3d660287ed657d6892f7be9ffc0e294a93)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e94f5323c41f32a74160378c3b19850d1f203ad5"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"04e271a952b8863bbafc99bd51aca4c32bff0e0d"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6723188c42ca3b34a9fce634d7a0ecc9ccd5cd56"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"499c6b43a79dd684bddbd18fe8b2235aa2764db4"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6173cfea2f916e01c4f98e29cd654384a05e32a3"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e56f460bddb397fa9a8e6faf7ae7eaa86953eb1"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2645e3caf7e013189da9c6ff621d006cca5a538b"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff287df16a1a58aca78b08d1f3ee09fc44da0351"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.10.260","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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