CVE-2022-49419 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-49419

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

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
f94aa46efaa087ec075c83e4508f943fb5e43977, a1aac13288de2935dc1a9330a93b1ac92f1e2b72, b3c9a924aab61adbc29df110006aa03afe1a78ba, 5.15.41, 5.17.9, 5.18, 0, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3, 5.19

Timeline

Official Publish: February 26th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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