CVE-2022-50667Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 9

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.

Affected Packages4 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel5.15.05.15.75+2
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.0.3-1+2
CVEListV5linux/linux7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcdb47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb+4
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.3-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m79x-vc6m-3cgv: 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 descri2025-12-09
OSV
drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()2025-12-09
OSV
CVE-2022-50667: 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 descript2025-12-09

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()2025-12-09
Debian
CVE-2022-50667: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx:...2022