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Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49419): linux-intel-iotg vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Feb 26, 2025 | Mar 19, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup
Commit b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather
than .remove") fixed a use-after-free error due the vesafb driver freeing
the fb_info in the .remove handler instead of doing it in .fb_destroy.
This can happen if the .fb_destroy callback is executed after the .remove
callback, since the former tries to access a pointer freed by the latter.
But that change didn't take into account that another possible scenario is
that .fb_destroy is called before the .remove callback. For example, if no
process has the fbdev chardev opened by the time the driver is removed.
If that's the case, fb_info will be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is
called, making the fb_info pointer accessed in vesafb_remove() after that
to no longer be valid.
To prevent that, move the expression containing the info->par to happen
before the unregister_framebuffer() function call.
Solution
References
- CVE-2022-49419
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49419
- CWE-416
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/acde4003efc16480375543638484d8f13f2e99a3
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fac5f8fb1bc2fc4f8714bf5e743c9cc3f547c63
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acde4003efc16480375543638484d8f13f2e99a3
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d260cad015945d1f4bb9b028a096f648506106a2
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f605f5558ecc175ec70016a3c15f007cb6386531
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49419
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