Bug 2448684 (CVE-2026-23266) - CVE-2026-23266 kernel: fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()
Summary: CVE-2026-23266 kernel: fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23266
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-18 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-18 20:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-18 18:02:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()

A userspace program can trigger the RIVA NV3 arbitration code by calling
the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl on /dev/fb*. When doing so, the driver
recomputes FIFO arbitration parameters in nv3_arb(), using state->mclk_khz
(derived from the PRAMDAC MCLK PLL) as a divisor without validating it
first.

In a normal setup, state->mclk_khz is provided by the real hardware and is
non-zero. However, an attacker can construct a malicious or misconfigured
device (e.g. a crafted/emulated PCI device) that exposes a bogus PLL
configuration, causing state->mclk_khz to become zero.  Once
nv3_get_param() calls nv3_arb(), the division by state->mclk_khz in the gns
calculation causes a divide error and crashes the kernel.

Fix this by checking whether state->mclk_khz is zero and bailing out before
doing the division.

The following log reveals it:

rivafb: setting virtual Y resolution to 2184
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 2187 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:nv3_arb drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:439 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nv3_get_param+0x3ab/0x13b0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:546
Call Trace:
  nv3CalcArbitration.constprop.0+0x255/0x460 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:603
  nv3UpdateArbitrationSettings drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:637 [inline]
  CalcStateExt+0x447/0x1b90 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c:1246
  riva_load_video_mode+0x8a9/0xea0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c:779
  rivafb_set_par+0xc0/0x5f0 drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c:1196
  fb_set_var+0x604/0xeb0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1033
  do_fb_ioctl+0x234/0x670 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1109
  fb_ioctl+0xdd/0x130 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1188
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x122/0x190 fs/ioctl.c:856


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