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Commit 994bdc2d authored by Samasth Norway Ananda's avatar Samasth Norway Ananda Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font



commit 1a194e6c8e1ee745e914b0b7f50fa86c89ed13fe upstream.

Fix integer overflow vulnerabilities in fbcon_do_set_font() where font
size calculations could overflow when handling user-controlled font
parameters.

The vulnerabilities occur when:
1. CALC_FONTSZ(h, pitch, charcount) performs h * pith * charcount
   multiplication with user-controlled values that can overflow.
2. FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int) + size addition can also overflow
3. This results in smaller allocations than expected, leading to buffer
   overflows during font data copying.

Add explicit overflow checking using check_mul_overflow() and
check_add_overflow() kernel helpers to safety validate all size
calculations before allocation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSamasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Fixes: 39b3cffb8cf3 ("fbcon: prevent user font height or width change from causing potential out-of-bounds access")
Cc: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot+38a3699c7eaf165b97a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Qianqiang Liu <qianqiang.liu@163.com>
Cc: Shixiong Ou <oushixiong@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.9+
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250912170023.3931881-1-samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9176e186
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