# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80786"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:12:57.927Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:06.123Z"
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-2026-80786"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80786.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80786"
title: "fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper\n\nHandle fbcon during display updates in fb_set_var_from_user(). Check\nwith fbcon if the mode change is possible, update hardware state and\nfinally update fbcon. Update all callers.\n\nOnly the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl currently does all steps. Other\nmode-changes callers in sysfs and driver code are missing fbcon-related\nsteps.\n\nWith the new helper, ps3fb and sh_mobile_lcdcfb no longer maintain\nfbcon state themselves."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3130e7bf43ecfe3a15bcf90b9698e0764a2d8d08"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d33589eff3d40439b3c83e8da0d07d20df797d50"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed7e9715849abd0816b8487b0d12ebd05d6e938b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07f7e46833f71472e30da54a50dacdf48521bdd3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f611e5e5f3327cf2e2daabe6ee5acac58cc784e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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