Vulnerability details
CVE-2022-50221
drm/fb-helper: Fix out-of-bounds access
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/fb-helper: Fix out-of-bounds access Clip memory range to screen-buffer size to avoid out-of-bounds access in fbdev deferred I/O's damage handling. Fbdev's deferred I/O can only track pages. From the range of pages, the damage handler computes the clipping rectangle for the display update. If the fbdev screen buffer ends near the beginning of a page, that page could contain more scanlines. The damage handler would then track these non-existing scanlines as dirty and provoke an out-of-bounds access during the screen update. Hence, clip the maximum memory range to the size of the screen buffer. While at it, rename the variables min/max to min_off/max_off in drm_fb_helper_deferred_io(). This avoids confusion with the macros of the same name.
CVSS scores
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8High | 3.1 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 5.18 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
| Linux | Linux | 67b723f5b74254d27962b1b59bddfee1584575ff ≤ v < 9c49ac792c639dbec0728b513329a32461f72253 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
| Linux | Linux | 67b723f5b74254d27962b1b59bddfee1584575ff ≤ v < ae25885bdf59fde40726863c57fd20e4a0642183 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
References and advisories
2Details
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last updated
- 2026-08-05
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- Linux
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
Weaknesses (CWE)
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