CVE-2022-50269 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()
A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed.
unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............
backtrace:
[] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60
[] 0xffffffffc45200a9
[] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
[] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
[…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 — bad13de764888b765ceaa4668893b52bd16653cc+4
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-22jx-v9jm-qjqq: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()
A memory leak was reported after the vk↗2025-09-15
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50269: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() A memory leak was reported after the vkms↗2025-09-15