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CVE-2022-50667 (GCVE-0-2022-50667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:23
VLAI
Title
drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
Summary
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.
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb (git)
Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b (git)
Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809 (git)
Affected: 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd , < a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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