DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50404

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50404
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JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2025-09-18T16:15:43Z
Modified
2025-09-19T09:03:18Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcondosetfont() failed syzbot is reporting memory leak at fbcondosetfont() [1], for commit a5a923038d70 ("fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when vcresize() failed") missed that the buffer might be newly allocated by fbconset_font().

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}