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Unscored CVE-2024-26798 EUVD-2024-24060GHSA-wm99-2g28-jp5m

fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()

Published Apr 4, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()

Commit a5a923038d70 (fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when
vc_resize() failed) started restoring old font data upon failure (of
vc_resize()). But it performs so only for user fonts. It means that the
"system"/internal fonts are not restored at all. So in result, the very
first call to fbcon_do_set_font() performs no restore at all upon
failing vc_resize().

This can be reproduced by Syzkaller to crash the system on the next
invocation of font_get(). It's rather hard to hit the allocation failure
in vc_resize() on the first font_set(), but not impossible. Esp. if
fault injection is used to aid the execution/failure. It was
demonstrated by Sirius:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD cb7b067 P4D cb7b067 PUD cb7d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 8007 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.7.0-g9d1694dc91ce #20
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:fbcon_get_font+0x229/0x800 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2286
Call Trace:
<TASK>
con_font_get drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4558 [inline]
con_font_op+0x1fc/0xf20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4673
vt_k_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:474 [inline]
vt_ioctl+0x632/0x2ec0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:752
tty_ioctl+0x6f8/0x1570 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2803
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
...

So restore the font data in any case, not only for user fonts. Note the
later 'if' is now protected by 'old_userfont' and not 'old_data' as the
latter is always set now. (And it is supposed to be non-NULL. Otherwise
we would see the bug above again.)

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.15.64 – < 5.15.151, 5.19.6 – < 5.20, 6.0 5.15.151

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.7.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.7.9-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.82-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1044.46 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-112.122 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1063.69 USN-6821-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.5 6.5.0-1023.23~22.04.1 USN-6895-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1066.75 USN-6821-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.5 6.5.0-1024.25~22.04.1 USN-6895-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1067.76.1 USN-6821-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1062.70 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.5 6.5.0-1024.26~22.04.1 USN-6895-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1060.66 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1046.53 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-44.44~22.04.1 USN-6900-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1056.59 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1058.64 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1060.65 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-110.120 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-44.44.1~22.04.1 USN-6895-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1058.59 USN-6820-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.5 6.5.0-1023.24 USN-6895-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1026.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oem-6.5 6.5.0-1027.28 USN-6895-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1061.67 USN-6821-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.5 6.5.0-1026.26~22.04.1 USN-6895-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1058.61 USN-6919-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-starfive-6.5 6.5.0-1017.18~22.04.1 USN-6895-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1030.34 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1063.69~20.04.1 USN-6821-3
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1065.74~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1062.70~20.04.1 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1046.53~20.04.1 USN-6821-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-113.123~20.04.1 USN-6871-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1057.60~20.04.1 USN-6892-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1058.64~20.04.1 USN-6828-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-110.120~20.04.1 USN-6820-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1027.27~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1061.67~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1059.63~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2002.2 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1056.58 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1064.72 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1063.69+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1065.74+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-111.121+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1062.70+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-syms 5.14.21-150500.55.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5-RT_Update_14 1-150500.11.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_13 1-150500.11.3.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +2 5.14.21-150500.55.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-64kb +7 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.82-99.168 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-784, ALAS2023-2024-603
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-784, ALAS2023-2024-603

Advisories 21

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