CVE-2022-50667 in Linux

Riassunto

di MITRE • 09/12/2025

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.

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• Responsabile: Linux
• Prenotare: 09/12/2025
• Divulgazione: 09/12/2025
• Moderazione: accettato
• Voce: VDB-334927
• CPE: pronto
• CWE: CWE-401 (confermato)
• CVSS: 5.7 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00208
• KEV: no
• Attività: molto basso
• Settore: Agriculture, Police, ...

Fonti

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50667
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50667
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2022-50667/