CVE-2022-49948

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49948
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49948.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49948
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Published
2025-06-18T11:15:21Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:25Z
Summary
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Details

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 vcdoresize().

Prevent such out-of-memory accesses by dropping the selection before the various confontset() console handlers are called.

References

Affected packages