CVE-2022-50667

drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()

published December 9, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00238 · 14.0th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T01:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 01:29Z
    drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl()
    cvelistv5