CVE-2025-38198

fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 4, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console

It looks like attempting to write to the "store_modes" sysfs node will run afoul of unregistered consoles:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122:28 index -1 is out of range for type 'fb_info *[32]' ... fbcon_info_from_console+0x192/0x1a0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122 fbcon_new_modelist+0xbf/0x2d0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:3048 fb_new_modelist+0x328/0x440 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:673 store_modes+0x1c9/0x3e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c:113 dev_attr_store+0x55/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2439

static struct fb_info *fbcon_registered_fb[FB_MAX]; ... static signed char con2fb_map[MAX_NR_CONSOLES]; ... static struct fb_info *fbcon_info_from_console(int console) ... return fbcon_registered_fb[con2fb_map[console]];

If con2fb_map contains a -1 things go wrong here. Instead, return NULL, as callers of fbcon_info_from_console() are trying to compare against existing "info" pointers, so error handling should kick in correctly.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 409d6c95f9c68bb7046410a3502e26e454a1e636 to before b3237d451bf3a4490cb1a76f3b7c91d9888f1c4bAffected
  • 409d6c95f9c68bb7046410a3502e26e454a1e636 to before 519ba75728ee8cd561dce25fc52a2ec5c47171dcAffected
  • 409d6c95f9c68bb7046410a3502e26e454a1e636 to before f28f1f578cd810779d01999c60618cda14c281ddAffected
  • 409d6c95f9c68bb7046410a3502e26e454a1e636 to before 54b28f7c567dd659e5f9562f518e4d7f3f6a367bAffected
  • 409d6c95f9c68bb7046410a3502e26e454a1e636 to before cedc1b63394a866bf8663a3e40f4546f1d28c8d8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.142 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.95 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.35 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.4 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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