Security Advisory

CVE-2026-43123

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-06 11:27:09

Last updated 2026-05-11 22:18:12

Assigner Linux

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: check return value of con2fb_acquire_newinfo() If fbcon_open() fails when called from con2fb_acquire_newinfo() then info->fbcon_par pointer remains NULL which is later dereferenced. Add check for return value of the function con2fb_acquire_newinfo() to avoid it. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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