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 description string from userspace fails, then the page for the instance descriptor doesn't get freed before returning -EFAULT, which leads to a memleak.

Status

Deferred - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-12-09

Last modified

2026-05-11

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb