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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-09 | Published 2025-12-09 | Updated 2025-12-09 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd (git) before b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb
affected

7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd (git) before 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b
affected

7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd (git) before 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809
affected

7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd (git) before a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33
affected

Default status
affected

5.15
affected

Any version before 5.15
unaffected

5.15.75 (semver)
unaffected

5.19.17 (semver)
unaffected

6.0.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb

git.kernel.org/...c/6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b

git.kernel.org/...c/53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809

git.kernel.org/...c/a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33

cve.org (CVE-2022-50667)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50667)

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