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.
Metrics
No CVSS score has been published yet.
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd, < b47a37ad4a444d82f9caf153a79d090b79786ebb; >= 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd, < 6ad40bbb2c25f17b899fcea114ebc0a46d8a938b; >= 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd, < 53066b144715332ce9370143c33c50d9a4d3e809; >= 7a7a933edd6c3a6d5d64e08093f2d564104cefcd, < a40c7f61d12fbd1e785e59140b9efd57127c0c33 |
| Linux | Linux | 5.15 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 9, 2025
- Last modified
- Nov 10, 2026
- NVD status
- Deferred