published September 25, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: vfb: defer cleanup until the last reference
FBIOGETCMAP takes a shallow snapshot of info->cmap and performs the
usercopy after dropping info->lock. vfb_remove() frees the colormap
immediately after unregistering the framebuffer, even when an open file
still holds a reference to fb_info. A concurrent driver unbind can
therefore free the colormap while the ioctl copies it to userspace.
KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _copy_to_user
Read of size 512 by task poc/125
_copy_to_user (./include/linux/instrumented.h:129 ./include/linux/uaccess.h:201 lib/usercopy.c:24)
fb_cmap_to_user (./include/linux/uaccess.h:230 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:211)
do_fb_ioctl (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_chrdev.c:114)
Allocated by task 1:
fb_alloc_cmap_gfp (./include/linux/slab.h:973 ./include/linux/slab.h:1290 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:108)
vfb_probe (drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c:459)
Freed by task 124:
fb_dealloc_cmap (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:151)
vfb_remove (drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c:489)
unregister_framebuffer() drops the registration reference, and fbdev calls
fb_destroy after the last put_fb_info(). Move the registered framebuffer's
cleanup into an fb_destroy callback so its colormap and screen buffer stay
alive until all file references have been released.