CVE-2022-50667 (GCVE-0-2022-50667)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
If the copy of the description string from userspace fails, then the page
for the instance descriptor doesn't get freed before returning -EFAULT,
which leads to a memleak.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb
(git)
Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b (git) Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809 (git) Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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