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CVE-2022-50404

Medium 5.5

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 products and versions

linux linux_kernel
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

Analysis

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