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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39967" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-15T07:55:51.554Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:06:36.336Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-39967" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39967.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39967" title: "fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font\n\nFix integer overflow vulnerabilities in fbcon_do_set_font() where font\nsize calculations could overflow when handling user-controlled font\nparameters.\n\nThe vulnerabilities occur when:\n1. CALC_FONTSZ(h, pitch, charcount) performs h * pith * charcount\n multiplication with user-controlled values that can overflow.\n2. FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int) + size addition can also overflow\n3. This results in smaller allocations than expected, leading to buffer\n overflows during font data copying.\n\nAdd explicit overflow checking using check_mul_overflow() and\ncheck_add_overflow() kernel helpers to safety validate all size\ncalculations before allocation." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"96e41fc29e8af5c5085fb8a79cab8d0d00bab86c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"994bdc2d23c79087fbf7dcd9544454e8ebcef877"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c8ec14075c5317edd6b242f1be8167aa1e4e333"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8a6e85328aeb9881531dbe89bcd2637a06c3c95"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6eb9f423b3db000aaedf83367b8539f6b72dcfc"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adac90bb1aaf45ca66f9db8ac100be16750ace78"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a4bac869560f943edbe3c2b032062f6673b13d3"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0c01f9aa08c8e10e10e8c9ebb5be01a4eff6eb7"},{"version":"39b3cffb8cf3111738ea993e2757ab382253d86a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a194e6c8e1ee745e914b0b7f50fa86c89ed13fe"},{"version":"ae021a904ac82d9fc81c25329d3c465c5a7d5686","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"451bffa366f2cc0e5314807cb847f31c0226efed","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2c455e9c5865861f5ce09c5f596909495ed7657c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72f099805dbc907fbe8fa19bccdc31d3e2ee6e9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"34cf1aff169dc6dedad8d79da7bf1b4de2773dbc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.62","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.300"},{"version":"4.4.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.196","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.143","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.8.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.4.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.245","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.194","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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