CVE-2022-49419

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49419
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49419.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49419
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T02:12:43Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:25Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

video: fbdev: vesafb: Fix a use-after-free due early fb_info cleanup

Commit b3c9a924aab6 ("fbdev: vesafb: Cleanup fb_info in .fb_destroy rather than .remove") fixed a use-after-free error due the vesafb driver freeing the fb_info in the .remove handler instead of doing it in .fb_destroy.

This can happen if the .fb_destroy callback is executed after the .remove callback, since the former tries to access a pointer freed by the latter.

But that change didn't take into account that another possible scenario is that .fb_destroy is called before the .remove callback. For example, if no process has the fbdev chardev opened by the time the driver is removed.

If that's the case, fb_info will be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is called, making the fb_info pointer accessed in vesafb_remove() after that to no longer be valid.

To prevent that, move the expression containing the info->par to happen before the unregister_framebuffer() function call.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49419.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
f94aa46efaa087ec075c83e4508f943fb5e43977
Fixed
0fac5f8fb1bc2fc4f8714bf5e743c9cc3f547c63
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a1aac13288de2935dc1a9330a93b1ac92f1e2b72
Fixed
f605f5558ecc175ec70016a3c15f007cb6386531
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78ba
Fixed
d260cad015945d1f4bb9b028a096f648506106a2
Fixed
acde4003efc16480375543638484d8f13f2e99a3
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.41
Fixed
5.15.46
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.17.9
Fixed
5.17.14

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.15.41
v5.15.42
v5.15.43
v5.15.44
v5.15.45
v5.17.10
v5.17.11
v5.17.12
v5.17.13
v5.17.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49419.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.46
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.17.14
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.18.0
Fixed
5.18.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49419.json"