CVE-2022-50667

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-09

Updated: 2025-12-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018