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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2021-47383
HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 3:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-47383

2024-05-2115:15:23
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux kernel
tty module
vulnerability
imageblit
fb_var_screeninfo

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

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

tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit

This issue happens when a userspace program does an ioctl
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO passing the fb_var_screeninfo struct
containing only the fields xres, yres, and bits_per_pixel
with values.

If this struct is the same as the previous ioctl, the
vc_resize() detects it and doesn’t call the resize_screen(),
leaving the fb_var_screeninfo incomplete. And this leads to
the updatescrollmode() calculates a wrong value to
fbcon_display->vrows, which makes the real_y() return a
wrong value of y, and that value, eventually, causes
the imageblit to access an out-of-bound address value.

To solve this issue I made the resize_screen() be called
even if the screen does not need any resizing, so it will
“fix and fill” the fb_var_screeninfo independently.

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%