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CVE-2026-43123

fbcon: check return value of con2fb_acquire_newinfo() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: check return value of con2fb_acquire_newinfo() If fbcon_open() fails when called from con2fb_acquire_newinfo() then info->fbcon_par pointer remains NULL which is later dereferenced. Add check for return value of the function con2fb_acquire_newinfo() to avoid it. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before d3e535533767c85788529e626478718b7e95a59f; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before 3b5a754ec86bc6064af9aca76eb191c2405e6b0c; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before a785c4e2a999c2d51dfcf40d317cfb30cc735d2c; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before 0b038c0be6827dd2dbb1ce4f8d92d97c80cbe9cc; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before 11a93180a70bb3095a9bd80d113d9277e30d9959; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before f57b61624c86ef8f87f6e6b7dd0755de03d90e89; affected d1baa4ffa677bf6986c460fcfd4cdaf8bfe66f0e before 011a0502801c8536f64141a2b61362c14f456544
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.23; unaffected 0 before 2.6.23; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.165 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.128 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.75 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.16 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.6 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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