VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2025-38702

high
Published 2025-09-04 · Modified 2026-05-12
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: fix potential buffer overflow in do_register_framebuffer() The current implementation may lead to buffer overflow when: 1. Unregistration creates NULL gaps in registered_fb[] 2. All array slots become occupied despite num_registered_fb < FB_MAX 3. The registration loop exceeds array bounds Add boundary check to prevent registered_fb[FB_MAX] access.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
2.6.12 Affected —
— Affected 6.1.149
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.12.43-1
sid Fixed 6.16.3-1
forky Fixed 6.16.3-1
bullseye Fixed 6.1.153-1~deb11u1
bookworm Fixed 6.1.153-1
11.0 Affected —

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.