CVE-2022-50222

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Nov 5, 2026

Description

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

tty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer

syzbot reports kernel infoleak at vcs_read() [1], for buffer can be read immediately after resize operation. Initialize buffer using kzalloc().

---------- #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <linux/fb.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { struct fb_var_screeninfo var = { }; const int fb_fd = open("/dev/fb0", 3); ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO, &var); var.yres = 0x21; ioctl(fb_fd, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, &var); return read(open("/dev/vcsu", O_RDONLY), &var, sizeof(var)) == -1; } ----------

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < e02fa87e572bb7d90dcdbce9c0f519f1eb992e96; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < cc9e874dace0c89ae535230c7da19b764746811e; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < 5c6c65681f39bf71bc72ed589dec3b8b20e75cac; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < 446f123aa6021e5f75a20789f05ff3f7ae51a42f; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < 777a462e1ae50a01fc4a871efa8e34d596a1e17d; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < e0ef23e9b0ad18b9fd3741b0f1ad2282e4a18def; >= d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26, < af77c56aa35325daa2bc2bed5c2ebf169be61b86
LinuxLinux4.19

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 18, 2025
Last modified
Nov 5, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2022-50222: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix