Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: fbtft: core: set smem_len before fb_deferred_io_init call
The fbtft_framebuffer_alloc() calls fb_deferred_io_init() before initializing info->fix.smem_len. It is set to zero by the framebuffer_alloc() function. It will trigger a WARN_ON() at the start of fb_deferred_io_init() and the function will not do anything.
Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: fbtft: core: set smem_len before fb_deferred_io_init call
The fbtft_framebuffer_alloc() calls fb_deferred_io_init() before initializing info->fix.smem_len. It is set to zero by the framebuffer_alloc() function. It will trigger a WARN_ON() at the start of fb_deferred_io_init() and the function will not do anything.