REDHAT-BUG-2419870: Medium severity linux/kernel vulnerability

Published Dec 8, 2025
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Updated

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

fbdev: Add bounds checking in bitputcs to fix vmalloc-out-of-bounds

Add bounds checking to prevent writes past framebuffer boundaries when rendering text near screen edges. Return early if the Y position is off-screen and clip image height to screen boundary. Break from the rendering loop if the X position is off-screen. When clipping image width to fit the screen, update the character count to match the clipped width to prevent buffer size mismatches.

Without the character count update, bitputcsaligned and bitputcsunaligned receive mismatched parameters where the buffer is allocated for the clipped width but cnt reflects the original larger count, causing out-of-bounds writes.

Affected Software

1 affected component
linux/kernel

Event History

Dec 8, 2025
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·07:04 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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