CVE-2024-26798
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font() Commit a5a923038d70 (fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when vc_resize() failed) started restoring old font data upon…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font() Commit a5a923038d70 (fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when vc_resize() failed) started restoring old font data upon failure (of vc_resize()). But it performs so only for user fonts. It means that the "system"/internal fonts are not restored at all. So in result, the very first call to fbcon_do_set_font() performs no restore at all upon failing vc_resize(). This can be reproduced by Syzkaller to crash the system on the next invocation of font_get(). It's rather hard to hit the allocation failure in vc_resize() on the first font_set(), but not impossible. Esp. if fault injection is used to aid the execution/failure. It was demonstrated by Sirius: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD cb7b067 P4D cb7b067 PUD cb7d067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 1 PID: 8007 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.7.0-g9d1694dc91ce #20 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:fbcon_get_font+0x229/0x800 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2286 Call Trace: <TASK> con_font_get drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4558 [inline] con_font_op+0x1fc/0xf20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4673 vt_k_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:474 [inline] vt_ioctl+0x632/0x2ec0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:752 tty_ioctl+0x6f8/0x1570 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2803 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] ... So restore the font data in any case, not only for user fonts. Note the later 'if' is now protected by 'old_userfont' and not 'old_data' as the latter is always set now. (And it is supposed to be non-NULL. Otherwise we would see the bug above again.)
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.33% probability · 26th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d6a284fcf3fad1b7e1b5bc3cd87cbfb60ce03fPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a4b5214f7bee13c897477168c77bbf79683c3dPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f91a96b892fab2f2543b4a55740c5bee36b1a6bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73a6bd68a1342f3a44cac9dffad81ad6a003e520Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2c881413dcc5d801bdc9535e51270cc88cb9cd8Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68f57df3335679653868fafccd8c88ef84ae98Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d6a284fcf3fad1b7e1b5bc3cd87cbfb60ce03fPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a4b5214f7bee13c897477168c77bbf79683c3dPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f91a96b892fab2f2543b4a55740c5bee36b1a6bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73a6bd68a1342f3a44cac9dffad81ad6a003e520Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2c881413dcc5d801bdc9535e51270cc88cb9cd8Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.