🛡️ CVE-2024-26798 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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

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

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

Commit a5a923038d70 (fbdev: fbcon: Properly revert changes when

vc_resize() failed) started restoring old font data upon failure (of

vc_resize()). But it performs so only for user fonts. It means that the

"system"/internal fonts are not restored at all. So in result, the very

first call to fbcon_do_set_font() performs no restore at all upon

failing vc_resize().

This can be reproduced by Syzkaller to crash the system on the next

invocation of font_get(). It's rather hard to hit the allocation failure

in vc_resize() on the first font_set(), but not impossible. Esp. if

fault injection is used to aid the execution/failure. It was

demonstrated by Sirius:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8

#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

PGD cb7b067 P4D cb7b067 PUD cb7d067 PMD 0

Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN

CPU: 1 PID: 8007 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.7.0-g9d1694dc91ce #20

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:fbcon_get_font+0x229/0x800 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2286

Call Trace:

<TASK>

con_font_get drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4558 [inline]

con_font_op+0x1fc/0xf20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4673

vt_k_ioctl drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:474 [inline]

vt_ioctl+0x632/0x2ec0 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:752

tty_ioctl+0x6f8/0x1570 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2803

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

...

So restore the font data in any case, not only for user fonts. Note the

later 'if' is now protected by 'old_userfont' and not 'old_data' as the

latter is always set now. (And it is supposed to be non-NULL. Otherwise

we would see the bug above again.)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-26798 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.7.9)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 4 April 2024 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-26798 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.7.9
linux-kernel

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