CVE-2022-49419

video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup

Commit b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather than .remove") fixed a use-after-free error due the vesafb driver freeing the fb_info in the .remove handler instead of doing it in .fb_destroy.

This can happen if the .fb_destroy callback is executed after the .remove callback, since the former tries to access a pointer freed by the latter.

But that change didn't take into account that another possible scenario is that .fb_destroy is called before the .remove callback. For example, if no process has the fbdev chardev opened by the time the driver is removed.

If that's the case, fb_info will be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is called, making the fb_info pointer accessed in vesafb_remove() after that to no longer be valid.

To prevent that, move the expression containing the info->par to happen before the unregister_framebuffer() function call.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f94aa46efaa087ec075c83e4508f943fb5e43977 to before 0fac5f8fb1bc2fc4f8714bf5e743c9cc3f547c63Affected
  • a1aac13288de2935dc1a9330a93b1ac92f1e2b72 to before f605f5558ecc175ec70016a3c15f007cb6386531Affected
  • b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78ba to before d260cad015945d1f4bb9b028a096f648506106a2Affected
  • b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78ba to before acde4003efc16480375543638484d8f13f2e99a3Affected
  • 5.15.41 to before 5.15.46Affected
  • 5.17.9 to before 5.17.14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 5.15.46 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.14 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

References

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