vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-50222): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 18, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer
syzbot reports kernel infoleak at vcs_read() [1], for buffer can be read
immediately after resize operation. Initialize buffer using kzalloc().
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#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/fb.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct fb_var_screeninfo var = { };
const int fb_fd = open("/dev/fb0", 3);
ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO, &var);
var.yres = 0x21;
ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, &var);
return read(open("/dev/vcsu", O_RDONLY), &var, sizeof(var)) == -1;
}
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Solutions
References
- CVE-2022-50222
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-50222
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/446f123aa6021e5f75a20789f05ff3f7ae51a42f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c6c65681f39bf71bc72ed589dec3b8b20e75cac
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/777a462e1ae50a01fc4a871efa8e34d596a1e17d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af77c56aa35325daa2bc2bed5c2ebf169be61b86
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc9e874dace0c89ae535230c7da19b764746811e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e02fa87e572bb7d90dcdbce9c0f519f1eb992e96
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0ef23e9b0ad18b9fd3741b0f1ad2282e4a18def
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50222
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