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CVE-2022-49419

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Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup Commit b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather than .remove") fixed a use-after-free error due the vesafb driver freeing the fb_info in the .remove handler instead of doing it in .fb_destroy. This can happen if the .fb_destroy callback is executed after the .remove callback, since the former tries to access a pointer freed by the latter. But that change didn't take into account that another possible scenario is that .fb_destroy is called before the .remove callback. For example, if no process has the fbdev chardev opened by the time the driver is removed. If that's the case, fb_info will be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is called, making the fb_info pointer accessed in vesafb_remove() after that to no longer be valid. To prevent that, move the expression containing the info->par to happen before the unregister_framebuffer() function call.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
f94aa46efaa087ec075c83e4508f943fb5e43977affectedgit0fac5f8fb1bc2fc4f8714bf5e743c9cc3f547c63UnavailableNone listed
a1aac13288de2935dc1a9330a93b1ac92f1e2b72affectedgitf605f5558ecc175ec70016a3c15f007cb6386531UnavailableNone listed
b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78baaffectedgitd260cad015945d1f4bb9b028a096f648506106a2UnavailableNone listed
b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78baaffectedgitacde4003efc16480375543638484d8f13f2e99a3UnavailableNone listed
5.15.41affectedsemver5.15.46UnavailableNone listed
5.17.9affectedsemver5.17.14UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.18affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.18UnavailableNone listed
5.15.46unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
5.17.14unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.17.*None listed
5.18.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.18.*None listed
5.19unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed