Bug 2273434 (CVE-2024-26798) - CVE-2024-26798 kernel: fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()
Summary: CVE-2024-26798 kernel: fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_se...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-26798
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2273435
Blocks: 2273418
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-04-04 16:34 UTC by Robb Gatica
Modified: 2024-06-09 13:39 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 5.15.151, kernel 6.1.81, kernel 6.6.21, kernel 6.7.9, kernel 6.8
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Description Robb Gatica 2024-04-04 16:34:56 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbcon: always restore the old font data in fbcon_do_set_font()

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26798 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024040402-CVE-2024-26798-191e@gregkh/T
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-04-04 16:35:28 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2273435]
Comment 2 Alex 2024-06-09 13:39:10 UTC 
The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2024-26798 is: 	SKIP	The Fixes patch not applied yet, so unlikely that actual: a5a923038d70d2d4a86cb4e3f32625a5ee6e7e24	YES			NO	NO	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).
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