CVE-2022-49948
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vt: Clear selection before changing the font When changing the console font with ioctl(KDFONTOP) the new font size can be bigger than the previous font. A previous selection may thus now be outside of the new screen size and thus trigger out-of-bounds accesses to graphics memory if the selection is removed in vc_do_resize(). Prevent such out-of-memory accesses by dropping the selection before the various con_font_set() console handlers are called.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 - < c555cf04684fde39b5b0dd9fd80730030ee10c4aaffected 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 - < e9ba4611ddf676194385506222cce7b0844e708eaffected 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 - < f74b4a41c5d7c9522469917e3072e55d435efd9eaffected 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 - < 1cf1930369c9dc428d827b60260c53271bff3285affected 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 - < 989201bb8c00b222235aff04e6200230d29dc7bb+19 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.9unaffected 0 - < 4.9unaffected 4.9.328 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.293 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.258 - <= 4.19.*+5 more versions |
References
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