CVE-2022-50667

high

Published 2023-11-07 · Modified 2023-11-07

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50667

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50667.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6583

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.0.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.0.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.0.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.0.3-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.