GHSA-m79x-vc6m-3cgv

GHSA-m79x-vc6m-3cgv PUBLISHED

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published December 9, 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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Dec 9, 2025 CVE Published
Apr 10, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809 url
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b url
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50667 advisory
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33 url

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