# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50222"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:03:56.744Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:15:10.357Z"
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-2022-50222"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50222.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50222"
title: "tty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer\n\nsyzbot reports kernel infoleak at vcs_read() [1], for buffer can be read\nimmediately after resize operation. Initialize buffer using kzalloc().\n\n  ----------\n  #include \u003cfcntl.h\u003e\n  #include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n  #include \u003csys/ioctl.h\u003e\n  #include \u003clinux/fb.h\u003e\n\n  int main(int argc, char *argv[])\n  {\n    struct fb_var_screeninfo var = { };\n    const int fb_fd = open(\"/dev/fb0\", 3);\n    ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO, &var);\n    var.yres = 0x21;\n    ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, &var);\n    return read(open(\"/dev/vcsu\", O_RDONLY), &var, sizeof(var)) == -1;\n  }\n  ----------"
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