CVE-2021-47444

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].