Threats Tagged 'cve-2026-53403'

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel received a security update addressing multiple vulnerabilities across various kernel components including drm, timers, netfilter, Bluetooth, media, ACPI, powerpc, TPM, RAID, IPMI, BPF, networking, and others. These fixes resolve issues such as race conditions, NULL pointer dereferences, use-after-free, buffer overflows, and validation errors. The update mitigates a broad range of security risks affecting kernel stability and security.

These are all security issues fixed in the kernel-devel-7.1.4-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: Fix fb_new_modelist to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var info->var, a framebuffer's current mode, is expected to have a matching entry in info->modelist. var_to_display() relies on this and treats a failed fb_match_mode() as "This should not happen". fb_set_var() keeps it true by adding the mode to the list on every change, and do_register_framebuffer() does the same at registration. store_modes() replaces the modelist from userspace. fb_new_modelist() validates the new modes but does not check that info->var still has a match. It relies on fbcon_new_modelist() to re-point consoles, but that only handles consoles mapped to the framebuffer. With fbcon unbound there are none, so info->var is left describing a mode that is no longer in the list. A later console takeover runs var_to_display(), where fb_match_mode() returns NULL and leaves fb_display[i].mode NULL. fbcon_switch() passes it to display_to_var(), and fb_videomode_to_var() dereferences the NULL mode. Keep the current mode in the list in fb_new_modelist(), the same way fb_set_var() does.