# 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-2022-50404"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:03:49.643Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:24:24.612Z"
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-2022-50404"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50404.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50404"
title: "fbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: fbcon: release buffer when fbcon_do_set_font() failed\n\nsyzbot is reporting memory leak at fbcon_do_set_font() [1], for\ncommit a5a923038d70 (\"fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when\nvc_resize() failed\") missed that the buffer might be newly allocated\nby fbcon_set_font()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"868749a7456dc48e93887a8474194e2ee6d6c21f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a341810a22e51c3a7a108f7896b5fd58d44d127"},{"version":"ebd6f886aa2447fcfcdce5450c9e1028e1d681bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88ec6d11052da527eb9268831e7a9bc5bbad02f6"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06926607b9fddf7ce8017493899ce6eb7e79a123"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a609bfc1e644a8467cb31945ed1488374ebdc013"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c3bfb8586f848317ceba5d777e11204ba3e5758"},{"version":"f08ccb792d3eaf1dc62d8cbf6a30d6522329f660","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.86"},{"version":"5.19.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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