Security Advisory

CVE-2022-50404

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-09-18 16:03:49

Last updated 2026-05-23 15:24:24

Assigner Linux

State PUBLISHED

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().

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