# 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-2026-68255"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:01:24.835Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:58.229Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68255"
title: "drm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/virtio: bound EDID block reads to the response buffer\n\nvirtio_get_edid_block() validates the read offset only against the\ndevice-supplied resp-\u003esize field, never against the fixed-size resp-\u003eedid\narray. The EDID block index is driven by the device-supplied extension\ncount, so a malicious virtio-gpu backend can advertise a large size\ntogether with a high block count and read far past the array into adjacent\nkernel memory, which is then surfaced in the parsed EDID (an out-of-bounds\nread / info leak).\n\nAlso reject any read whose end exceeds the size of the edid array.\nConforming EDID responses stay within the array and are unaffected."
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