{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"CVE-2022-49948","published":"2025-06-18T11:00:12.364Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:31.173156718Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02846-1"],"summary":"vt: Clear selection before changing the font","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvt: Clear selection before changing the font\n\nWhen changing the console font with ioctl(KDFONTOP) the new font size\ncan be bigger than the previous font. A previous selection may thus now\nbe outside of the new screen size and thus trigger out-of-bounds\naccesses to graphics memory if the selection is removed in\nvc_do_resize().\n\nPrevent such out-of-memory accesses by dropping the selection before the\nvarious con_font_set() console handlers are 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