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drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-50667
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 00:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 Dec 2025, 01:29 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2022-50667
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
Complete source record
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