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CVE-2024-50180

kernel: fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 8, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow

The values of the variables xres and yres are placed in strbuf. These variables are obtained from strbuf1. The strbuf1 array contains digit characters and a space if the array contains non-digit characters. Then, when executing sprintf(strbuf, "%ux%ux8", xres, yres); more than 16 bytes will be written to strbuf. It is suggested to increase the size of the strbuf array to 24.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write