CVE-2024-50076
kernel: vt: prevent kernel-infoleak in con_font_get()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 29, 2024
Updated · October 29, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vt: prevent kernel-infoleak in con_font_get()
font.data may not initialize all memory spaces depending on the implementation of vc->vc_sw->con_font_get. This may cause info-leak, so to prevent this, it is safest to modify it to initialize the allocated memory space to 0, and it generally does not affect the overall performance of the system.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-909 · Missing Initialization of Resource