CVE-2025-38685 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit
This issue triggers when a userspace program does an ioctl
FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP by passing console number and frame buffer number.
Ideally this maps console to frame buffer and updates the screen if
console is visible.
As part of mapping it has to do resize of console according to frame
buffer info. if this resize fails and returns from vc_do_resize() and
continues further…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 — 078e62bffca4b7e72e8f3550eb063ab981c36c7a+7
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-qq5r-fpg9-2mj7: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit
This issue triggers whe↗2025-09-05
OSV▶
CVE-2025-38685: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: Fix vmalloc out-of-bounds write in fast_imageblit This issue triggers when↗2025-09-04