CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49978

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-06-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-369

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide by zero error In `do_fb_ioctl()` of fbmem.c, if cmd is FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, var will be copied from user, then go through `fb_set_var()` and `info->fbops->fb_check_var()` which could may be `pm2fb_check_var()`. Along the path, `var->pixclock` won't be modified. This function checks whether reciprocal of `var->pixclock` is too high. If `var->pixclock` is zero, there will be a divide by zero error. So, it is necessary to check whether denominator is zero to avoid crash. As this bug is found by Syzkaller, logs are listed below. divide error in pm2fb_check_var Call Trace: <TASK> fb_set_var+0x367/0xeb0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1015 do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1110 fb_ioctl+0xdd/0x130 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1189

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.9.327) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.292) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.257) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.212) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.141) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.65) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.7) • linux linux kernel 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References