Bug 2373448 (CVE-2022-50097)

Summary:	CVE-2022-50097 kernel: video: fbdev: s3fb: Check the size of screen before memset_io()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:03:23 UTC

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

video: fbdev: s3fb: Check the size of screen before memset_io()

In the function s3fb_set_par(), the value of 'screen_size' is
calculated by the user input. If the user provides the improper value,
the value of 'screen_size' may larger than 'info->screen_size', which
may cause the following bug:

[   54.083733] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90003000000
[   54.083742] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[   54.083744] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[   54.083760] RIP: 0010:memset_orig+0x33/0xb0
[   54.083782] Call Trace:
[   54.083788]  s3fb_set_par+0x1ec6/0x4040
[   54.083806]  fb_set_var+0x604/0xeb0
[   54.083836]  do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670

Fix the this by checking the value of 'screen_size' before memset_io().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 05:42:17 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061802-CVE-2022-50097-c63f@gregkh/T