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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26798" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-04T08:20:27.195Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:37:58.296Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" 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-2024-26798" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26798.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26798" title: "fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()\n\nCommit a5a923038d70 (fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when\nvc_resize() failed) started restoring old font data upon failure (of\nvc_resize()). But it performs so only for user fonts. It means that the\n\"system\"/internal fonts are not restored at all. So in result, the very\nfirst call to fbcon_do_set_font() performs no restore at all upon\nfailing vc_resize().\n\nThis can be reproduced by Syzkaller to crash the system on the next\ninvocation of font_get(). It's rather hard to hit the allocation failure\nin vc_resize() on the first font_set(), but not impossible. Esp. if\nfault injection is used to aid the execution/failure. It was\ndemonstrated by Sirius:\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD cb7b067 P4D cb7b067 PUD cb7d067 PMD 0\n Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\n CPU: 1 PID: 8007 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.7.0-g9d1694dc91ce #20\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:fbcon_get_font+0x229/0x800 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2286\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n con_font_get drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4558 [inline]\n con_font_op+0x1fc/0xf20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4673\n vt_k_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:474 [inline]\n vt_ioctl+0x632/0x2ec0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:752\n tty_ioctl+0x6f8/0x1570 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2803\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n ...\n\nSo restore the font data in any case, not only for user fonts. Note the\nlater 'if' is now protected by 'old_userfont' and not 'old_data' as the\nlatter is always set now. (And it is supposed to be non-NULL. Otherwise\nwe would see the bug above again.)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"868749a7456dc48e93887a8474194e2ee6d6c21f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae68f57df3335679653868fafccd8c88ef84ae98"},{"version":"ebd6f886aa2447fcfcdce5450c9e1028e1d681bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20a4b5214f7bee13c897477168c77bbf79683c3d"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f91a96b892fab2f2543b4a55740c5bee36b1a6b"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73a6bd68a1342f3a44cac9dffad81ad6a003e520"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2c881413dcc5d801bdc9535e51270cc88cb9cd8"},{"version":"a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00d6a284fcf3fad1b7e1b5bc3cd87cbfb60ce03f"},{"version":"f08ccb792d3eaf1dc62d8cbf6a30d6522329f660","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.151"},{"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":"5.15.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","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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