CVE-2025-38685
Published: Sep 4, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit This issue triggers when a userspace program does an ioctl FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP by passing console number and frame buffer number. Ideally this maps console to frame buffer and updates the screen if console is visible. As part of mapping it has to do resize of console according to frame buffer info. if this resize fails and returns from vc_do_resize() and continues further. At this point console and new frame buffer are mapped and sets display vars. Despite failure still it continue to proceed updating the screen at later stages where vc_data is related to previous frame buffer and frame buffer info and display vars are mapped to new frame buffer and eventully leading to out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit(). This bheviour is excepted only when fg_console is equal to requested console which is a visible console and updates screen with invalid struct references in fbcon_putcs().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 078e62bffca4b7e72e8f3550eb063ab981c36c7aaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 4c4d7ddaf1d43780b106bedc692679f965dc5a3aaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 27b118aebdd84161c8ff5ce49d9d536f2af10754affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < ed9b8e5016230868c8d813d9179523f729fec8c6affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 56701bf9eeb63219e378cb7fcbd066ea4eaeeb50+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 5.15.190 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.149 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.103 - <= 6.6.*+4 more versions |
References
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