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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Feb 6, 2026

fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed

CVE-2022-50404

Description

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

fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed

syzbot is reporting memory leak at fbcon_do_set_font() [1], for commit a5a923038d70 ("fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when vc_resize() failed") missed that the buffer might be newly allocated by fbcon_set_font().

Affected products

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Patches

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