CVE-2024-26798

fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 4, 2024 at 08:20 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 5.19.65.15.64 ≤ v < 5.15.1515.19.6 ≤ v < 5.206.0 ≤ v < 6.1.816.0 ≤ v < 6.6.216.0 ≤ v < 6.7.96.0 ≤ v < 6.86.2 ≤ v < 6.6.216.7 ≤ v < 6.7.95.15.645.19.66.8 rc16.8 rc26.8 rc36.8 rc46.8 rc56.8 rc6868749a7456dc48e93887a8474194e2ee6d6c21fa5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24ebd6f886aa2447fcfcdce5450c9e1028e1d681bbf08ccb792d3eaf1dc62d8cbf6a30d6522329f660
Vendor states this is fixed in 00d6a284fcf3fad1b7e1b5bc3cd87cbfb60ce03f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 20a4b5214f7bee13c897477168c77bbf79683c3d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2f91a96b892fab2f2543b4a55740c5bee36b1a6b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 73a6bd68a1342f3a44cac9dffad81ad6a003e520 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a2c881413dcc5d801bdc9535e51270cc88cb9cd8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ae68f57df3335679653868fafccd8c88ef84ae98 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.151 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 5.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.81 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.21 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.8 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-770

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