CVE-2026-80786

What the bug is

Handle fbcon during display updates in fb_set_var_from_user(). Check with fbcon if the mode change is possible, update hardware state and finally update fbcon. Update all callers. Only the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl currently does all steps. Other mode-changes callers in sysfs and driver code are missing fbcon-related steps. With the new helper, ps3fb and sh_mobile_lcdcfb no longer maintain fbcon state themselves.

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_chrdev.c
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
drivers/video/fbdev/ps3fb.c
drivers/video/fbdev/sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c
include/linux/fb.h

What this is

FRAMEBUFFER COREMAINTAINERS section matched on drivers/video/fbdev/core/ · Odd Fixes

Check it on the machine

grep -wE 'CONFIG_FB|CONFIG_FB_CORE|CONFIG_FB_DEVICE|CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE' /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.

• bookwormy
• trixie, forky, sidYnot built on s390x/s390x

y

built into the kernel image on every flavour - only a patch removes it

Y

built in where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it

Build switches

CONFIG_FB, CONFIG_FB_CORE, CONFIG_FB_DEVICE, CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE

Reads as

all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages

Signals

Published

2026-09-04 (44 days ago)source

CVSS

no vector published, unrated

Attack vector

not published

EPSS

0.21%, higher than 10.0% of all CVEssource

CISA KEV

not listedthe KEV catalogue

Debian urgency

not yet assignedsource

Subsystem

drivers/video

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

Introduced	Fixed in	Commit
2.6.12	6.18.57	ed7e9715849a
2.6.12	7.1.11	07f7e46833f7
2.6.12	7.2	6f611e5e5f33