CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50404

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-09-18
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
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed syzbot is reporting memory leak at fbcon_do_set_font() [1], for commit a5a923038d70 ("fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when vc_resize() failed") missed that the buffer might be newly allocated by fbcon_set_font().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.64 < 5.15.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.19.6 < 6.0) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.1 < 6.0.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2) • linux linux kernel 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References