# 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-2026-74424"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:27.179Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-18T06:56:33.340Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74424"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74424.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74424"
title: "fbcon: fix NULL pointer dereference for a console without vc_data"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbcon: fix NULL pointer dereference for a console without vc_data\n\nfbcon_new_modelist() runs when a framebuffer's modelist changes. For each\nconsole mapped to it with fb_display[i].mode set, it reads vc_cons[i].d and\npasses the vc_num to fbcon_set_disp(). This assumes a console with a mode\nset has a vc_data, but it can be NULL. fbcon_set_disp() sets\nfb_display[i].mode before it checks vc_data, and fbcon_deinit() leaves the\nmode set after the vc_data is freed. fbcon_new_modelist() then dereferences\nthe NULL vc_data.\n\nKeep fb_display[i].mode set only while the console has a vc_data. Check\nvc_data before setting the mode in fbcon_set_disp(), and clear the mode in\nfbcon_deinit(). The existing mode check in fbcon_new_modelist() then skips\nsuch consoles."
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