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CVE-2022-50404

fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 868749a7456dc48e93887a8474194e2ee6d6c21f before 5a341810a22e51c3a7a108f7896b5fd58d44d127; affected ebd6f886aa2447fcfcdce5450c9e1028e1d681bb before 88ec6d11052da527eb9268831e7a9bc5bbad02f6; affected a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24 before 06926607b9fddf7ce8017493899ce6eb7e79a123; affected a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24 before a609bfc1e644a8467cb31945ed1488374ebdc013; affected a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24 before 3c3bfb8586f848317ceba5d777e11204ba3e5758; affected f08ccb792d3eaf1dc62d8cbf6a30d6522329f660; affected 5.15.64 before 5.15.86; affected 5.19.6 before 5.20
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.0; unaffected 0 before 6.0; unaffected 5.15.86 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.16 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1.2 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2 through *

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