PT-2025-49698 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Published 2025-12-09 · Updated 2026-01-28 · CVE-2022-50667

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak exists in the vmw mksstat add ioctl() function within the drm/vmwgfx module. This occurs when copying a description string from user space fails, preventing the instance descriptor page from being freed before returning an error, leading to a memory leak.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-50667

RHSA-2023:6583

RHSA-2023:7077

SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1

SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1

Affected Products

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 851

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50667.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50667 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50667 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53862 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255970 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54025 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54040 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254623 · Note