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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49948" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:12.364Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:31:17.598Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49948" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49948.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49948" title: "vt: Clear selection before changing the font" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvt: Clear selection before changing the font\n\nWhen changing the console font with ioctl(KDFONTOP) the new font size\ncan be bigger than the previous font. A previous selection may thus now\nbe outside of the new screen size and thus trigger out-of-bounds\naccesses to graphics memory if the selection is removed in\nvc_do_resize().\n\nPrevent such out-of-memory accesses by dropping the selection before the\nvarious con_font_set() console handlers are called." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c555cf04684fde39b5b0dd9fd80730030ee10c4a"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9ba4611ddf676194385506222cce7b0844e708e"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f74b4a41c5d7c9522469917e3072e55d435efd9e"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cf1930369c9dc428d827b60260c53271bff3285"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"989201bb8c00b222235aff04e6200230d29dc7bb"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2535431ae967ad17585513649625fea7db28d4db"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c904fe03c4bd1f356a58797d39e2a5d0ca15cefc"},{"version":"009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"566f9c9f89337792070b5a6062dff448b3e7977f"},{"version":"e60f8fcce05042e8f8cea25ee81fecc1222114cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5812a9bc9d68a82c2cc839f88e6f7a05093ab39d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"863ad19fd654c485e3beec3575c4d74a1e74369e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"dbc3fd44f957a39407e889287bf61fa0ef3ecc14","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0b2a0a58ad22f9d6dfc641bc5ec46057493f22a5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9f2d48f0745f921040df91bfe8fa7f0339cd7497","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3425e397fb23cc2e8e6fb8f5b8226dcb447e84dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"eeae0a12a16650ff494d5faefa371cd9e7079575","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.2.85","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.10.105","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.12.68","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"3.16.40","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"3.18.45","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.1.36","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"4.4.31","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.8.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"4.9.328","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.213","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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