vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38312: kernel: fbdev: core: fbcvt: avoid division by 0 in fb_cvt_hperiod()

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Added
Jul 14, 2025
Modified
Jul 15, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: core: fbcvt: avoid division by 0 in fb_cvt_hperiod()

In fb_find_mode_cvt(), iff mode->refresh somehow happens to be 0x80000000,
cvt.f_refresh will become 0 when multiplying it by 2 due to overflow. It's
then passed to fb_cvt_hperiod(), where it's used as a divider -- division
by 0 will result in kernel oops. Add a sanity check for cvt.f_refresh to
avoid such overflow...

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static
analysis tool.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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