CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50667
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb git.kernel.org