# 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-2025-40304"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:29.013Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:23.704Z"
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-2025-40304"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40304.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40304"
title: "fbdev: Add bounds checking in bit_putcs to fix vmalloc-out-of-bounds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: Add bounds checking in bit_putcs to fix vmalloc-out-of-bounds\n\nAdd bounds checking to prevent writes past framebuffer boundaries when\nrendering text near screen edges. Return early if the Y position is off-screen\nand clip image height to screen boundary. Break from the rendering loop if the\nX position is off-screen. When clipping image width to fit the screen, update\nthe character count to match the clipped width to prevent buffer size\nmismatches.\n\nWithout the character count update, bit_putcs_aligned and bit_putcs_unaligned\nreceive mismatched parameters where the buffer is allocated for the clipped\nwidth but cnt reflects the original larger count, causing out-of-bounds writes."
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