> CVE-2022-50269

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PUBLISHED
2025-09-15 15:15
MODIFIED
2025-09-15 15:22
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
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Top 94.9%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD 🔗 2025-10-18 RED HAT 🔗 2025-10-18 CVE PROJECT 🔗 2026-01-19 FIRST EPSS 🔗 2026-11-08 OSV 🔗 2026-11-08

> DESCRIPTION

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16): comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............ backtrace: [<00000000e7561ff8>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60 [<000000000b1954a0>] 0xffffffffc45200a9 [<00000000abbf1da0>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0 [<000000001505ee87>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680 [<00000000958079ad>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110 [<00000000117e4696>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200 [<00000000f74b12d2>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000008fc6fcde>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 The reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return value of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config allocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked. vkms_init() config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated ... return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked Fix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the config if error happened.

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Version: 4.18.0
Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Version: 5.14.0
Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Version: 5.14.0

> RED HAT SECURITY ADVISORIES

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Co...
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A...
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (C...
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

> RED HAT SEVERITY ASSESSMENT

THREAT SEVERITY
Low

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
Linux / Kernel

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
15/09/2025 15:15
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 14:38
CVEPROJECT
Champ modifié: CVE Project
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 12:06
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Sévérité Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
N/A
Nouvelle valeur:
{ "threat_severity": "Low", "severity_scale": null }
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 18/10/2025 12:06
REDHAT
Champ modifié: Red Hat
Ancienne valeur:
Non
Nouvelle valeur:
Oui
Total des modifications: 3 Dernière mise à jour: 1 year ago
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