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CVE-2022-50667

drm/vmwgfx: Fix memory leak in vmw_mksstat_add_ioctl() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd before b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb; affected 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd before 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b; affected 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd before 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809; affected 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd before a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.15; unaffected 0 before 5.15; unaffected 5.15.75 through 5.15.*; unaffected 5.19.17 through 5.19.*; unaffected 6.0.3 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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