CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39967
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font
Fix integer overflow vulnerabilities in fbcon_do_set_font() where font
size calculations could overflow when handling user-controlled font
parameters.
The vulnerabilities occur when:
1. CALC_FONTSZ(h, pitch, charcount) performs h * pith * charcount
multiplication with user-controlled values that can overflow.
2. FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int) + size addition can also overflow
3. This results in smaller allocations than expected, leading to buffer
overflows during font data copying.
Add explicit overflow checking using check_mul_overflow() and
check_add_overflow() kernel helpers to safety validate all size
calculations before allocation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.4.235 < 4.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9.235 < 4.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.196 < 4.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.143 < 4.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.62 < 5.4.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8.6 < 5.9)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.9.1 < 5.10.245)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.194)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.155)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.109)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.50)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.10)
• linux linux kernel 5.9
• linux linux kernel 6.17
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a194e6c8e1ee745e914b0b7f50fa86c89ed13fe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a4bac869560f943edbe3c2b032062f6673b13d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994bdc2d23c79087fbf7dcd9544454e8ebcef877 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8ec14075c5317edd6b242f1be8167aa1e4e333 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6eb9f423b3db000aaedf83367b8539f6b72dcfc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adac90bb1aaf45ca66f9db8ac100be16750ace78 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8a6e85328aeb9881531dbe89bcd2637a06c3c95 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0c01f9aa08c8e10e10e8c9ebb5be01a4eff6eb7 Patch