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Tracker / CVE-2022-49948

CVE-2022-49948

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.9.328
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.293
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.258
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.213
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.66
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.19.8
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.142

Analysis

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