CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49978
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f1174f4972ea9fad6becf8881d71adca8e9ca91 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19f953e7435644b81332dd632ba1b2d80b1e37af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34c3dea1189525cd533071ed5c176fc4ea8d982b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ec326a6a0d4667585ca595f438c7293e5ced7c4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d9591b32a9092fc6391a316b56e8016c6181c3d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f88cdfea8d7f4dbaf423d808241403b2bb945e4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fc778ee2fb2853f7a3531fa7273349640d8e4e9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4bb011a683532841344ca7f281b5e04389b4f8 Patch