GHSA-R6PW-RW8P-5CR9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-18 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-14 21:30
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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.

Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-49948"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-125"
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-18T11:15:21Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvt: Clear selection before changing the font\n\nWhen changing the console font with ioctl(KDFONTOP) the new font size\ncan be bigger than the previous font. A previous selection may thus now\nbe outside of the new screen size and thus trigger out-of-bounds\naccesses to graphics memory if the selection is removed in\nvc_do_resize().\n\nPrevent such out-of-memory accesses by dropping the selection before the\nvarious con_font_set() console handlers are called.",
  "id": "GHSA-r6pw-rw8p-5cr9",
  "modified": "2025-11-14T21:30:27Z",
  "published": "2025-06-18T12:30:36Z",
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