CVE-2022-49948

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.9.328 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.293linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.258linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.213linux
linux/Kernel 4.9.0 - 4.9.328linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.66linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.19.8linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.142linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.0 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel < 4.9.328
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026