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Tracker / CVE-2026-43123

CVE-2026-43123

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: check return value of con2fb_acquire_newinfo() If fbcon_open() fails when called from con2fb_acquire_newinfo() then info->fbcon_par pointer remains NULL which is later dereferenced. Add check for return value of the function con2fb_acquire_newinfo() to avoid it. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.23 → 5.15.203
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.165
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.16
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.6
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.128
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.75

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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