Riskcovery

CVE-2022-50667

drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 9, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 9, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd to before b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebbAffected
  • 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd to before 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938bAffected
  • 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd to before 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809Affected
  • 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd to before a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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