Bug 2373523 (CVE-2022-49978) - CVE-2022-49978 kernel: fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide by zero error
Summary: CVE-2022-49978 kernel: fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide by zero error
Keywords:
Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49978
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-06-18 12:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-23 11:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:06:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide by zero error

In `do_fb_ioctl()` of fbmem.c, if cmd is FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, var will be
copied from user, then go through `fb_set_var()` and
`info->fbops->fb_check_var()` which could may be `pm2fb_check_var()`.
Along the path, `var->pixclock` won't be modified. This function checks
whether reciprocal of `var->pixclock` is too high. If `var->pixclock` is
zero, there will be a divide by zero error. So, it is necessary to check
whether denominator is zero to avoid crash. As this bug is found by
Syzkaller, logs are listed below.

divide error in pm2fb_check_var
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 fb_set_var+0x367/0xeb0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1015
 do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1110
 fb_ioctl+0xdd/0x130 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1189

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 18:13:49 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061820-CVE-2022-49978-8dc2@gregkh/T


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.