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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-48993

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 10/21/2024 4:15:11 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

fbcon: Use kzalloc() in fbcon_prepare_logo()

A kernel built with syzbot's config file reported that

  scr_memcpyw(q, save, array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2))

causes uninitialized "save" to be copied.

  ----------
  [drm] Initialized vgem 1.0.0 20120112 for vgem on minor 0
  [drm] Initialized vkms 1.0.0 20180514 for vkms on minor 1
  Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
  =====================================================
  BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in do_update_region+0x4b8/0xba0
   do_update_region+0x4b8/0xba0
   update_region+0x40d/0x840
   fbcon_switch+0x3364/0x35e0
   redraw_screen+0xae3/0x18a0
   do_bind_con_driver+0x1cb3/0x1df0
   do_take_over_console+0x11cb/0x13f0
   fbcon_fb_registered+0xacc/0xfd0
   register_framebuffer+0x1179/0x1320
   __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x23ad/0x2b40
   drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0xbea/0xda0
   drm_fbdev_generic_setup+0x65e/0x9d0
   vkms_init+0x9f3/0xc76
   (...snipped...)

  Uninit was stored to memory at:
   fbcon_prepare_logo+0x143b/0x1940
   fbcon_init+0x2c1b/0x31c0
   visual_init+0x3e7/0x820
   do_bind_con_driver+0x14a4/0x1df0
   do_take_over_console+0x11cb/0x13f0
   fbcon_fb_registered+0xacc/0xfd0
   register_framebuffer+0x1179/0x1320
   __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x23ad/0x2b40
   drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0xbea/0xda0
   drm_fbdev_generic_setup+0x65e/0x9d0
   vkms_init+0x9f3/0xc76
   (...snipped...)

  Uninit was created at:
   __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xb69/0x1020
   __kmalloc+0x379/0x680
   fbcon_prepare_logo+0x704/0x1940
   fbcon_init+0x2c1b/0x31c0
   visual_init+0x3e7/0x820
   do_bind_con_driver+0x14a4/0x1df0
   do_take_over_console+0x11cb/0x13f0
   fbcon_fb_registered+0xacc/0xfd0
   register_framebuffer+0x1179/0x1320
   __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x23ad/0x2b40
   drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0xbea/0xda0
   drm_fbdev_generic_setup+0x65e/0x9d0
   vkms_init+0x9f3/0xc76
   (...snipped...)

  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-00356-g8f2975c2bb4c #924
  Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
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Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20e78b7d1c1019789d9754ad9246192916f1a3b4 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bbebc6aba72ece39a200c8141f44e68ba883877 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5126b574c9177ed9ca925e36f85a1e6ce80bd2 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6a00d7e8ffd78d1cdb7a43f1278f081038c638f [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9b53caf0191cee24afd05ca6c83ed873199b52d [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e70a5724400a841c9857ee3d08dae4d6c53ee40d [No types assigned]