CVE-2022-50222 (GCVE-0-2022-50222)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
tty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer
Summary
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;
}
----------
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < e02fa87e572bb7d90dcdbce9c0f519f1eb992e96
(git)
Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < cc9e874dace0c89ae535230c7da19b764746811e (git) Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < 5c6c65681f39bf71bc72ed589dec3b8b20e75cac (git) Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < 446f123aa6021e5f75a20789f05ff3f7ae51a42f (git) Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < 777a462e1ae50a01fc4a871efa8e34d596a1e17d (git) Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < e0ef23e9b0ad18b9fd3741b0f1ad2282e4a18def (git) Affected: d8ae7242718738ee1bf9bfdd632d2a4b150fdd26 , < af77c56aa35325daa2bc2bed5c2ebf169be61b86 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.256 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.211 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.137 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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