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CVE-2022-49070· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Linux

fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.26% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078, 2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232, 5.15.34.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078, 2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232, 5.15.34 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference. An example error message on ppc64le is shown below. BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000060 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000080dfa4 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [...] CPU: 2 PID: 139 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-ae085d7f9365 #1 NIP: c00000000080dfa4 LR: c00000000080df9c CTR: c000000000797430 REGS: c000000004132fe0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.17.0-ae085d7f9365) MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28228282 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c00000000000c80c DAR: 0000000000000060 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c00000000080df9c c000000004133280 c00000000169d200 0000000000000029 GPR04: 00000000ffffefff c000000004132f90 c000000004132f88 0000000000000000 GPR08: c0000000015658f8 c0000000015cd200 c0000000014f57d0 0000000048228283 GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000003fffe300 0000000020000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000113fc4a40 0000000000000005 0000000113fcfb80 GPR20: 000001000f7283b0 0000000000000000 c000000000e4a588 c000000000e4a5b0 GPR24: 0000000000000001 00000000000a0000 c008000000db0168 c0000000021f6ec0 GPR28: c0000000016d65a8 c000000004b36460 0000000000000000 c0000000016d64b0 NIP [c00000000080dfa4] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x184/0x1d0 [c000000004133280] [c00000000080df9c] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x17c/0x1d0 (unreliable) [c000000004133350] [c00000000080e4d0] remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x60/0x150 [c0000000041333a0] [c00000000080e6f4] remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x134/0x1b0 [c000000004133450] [c008000000e70438] drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x90/0x100 [drm] [c000000004133490] [c008000000da0ce4] bochs_pci_probe+0x6c/0xa64 [bochs] [...] [c000000004133db0] [c00000000002aaa0] system_call_exception+0x170/0x2d0 [c000000004133e10] [c00000000000c3cc] system_call_common+0xec/0x250 The bug [1] was introduced by commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal"). Most firmware framebuffers have an underlying platform device, which can be hot-unplugged before loading the native graphics driver. OF framebuffers do not (yet) have that device. Fix the code by unregistering the framebuffer as before without a hot unplug. Tested with 5.17 on qemu ppc64le emulation.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 16th percentile

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22

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernel5.15.33
  • linux linux kernel5.16.19
  • linux linux kernel5.17.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • c894ac44786cfed383a6c6b20c1bfb12eb96018a and later · before 2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232affected · git
    • 9565a3b5203a4d57acbc1d0e981c6df71864b4ab and later · before de33df481545974ba47c46f05194e769e4307843affected · git
    • 4d695d7c276f15adb1d2b64c584c3cf8f4f9e9ce and later · before feed87ff122b1640c221d4dd559442ab2cd50bb1affected · git
    • 27599aacbaefcbf2af7b06b0029459bbf682000d and later · before 0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078affected · git
    • 5.15.33 and later · before 5.15.34affected · semver
    • 5.16.19 and later · before 5.16.20affected · semver
    • 5.17.2 and later · before 5.17.3affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 5.17.3-15.17.3-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-49068Feb 26, 2025 · btrfs: release correct delalloc amount in direct IO write path
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-49069Feb 26, 2025 · drm/amd/display: Fix by adding FPU protection for dcn30_internal_validate_bw
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-49071Feb 26, 2025 · drm/panel: ili9341: fix optional regulator handling
    22Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.15.34Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.16.20Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.17.3Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxde33df481545974ba47c46f05194e769e4307843Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxfeed87ff122b1640c221d4dd559442ab2cd50bb1Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux5.17.3-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Variant candidates

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Chain candidates

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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