CVE-2022-50269

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.12-5.15.99, 5.16-6.1.16, 6.2-6.2.3 - Use-After-Free in vkms_init()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 4.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 5.12.0 - 5.15.99linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.2.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 - 07ab77154d6fd2d67e465ab5ce30083709950f02
Linux/Linux 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 - 0d0b368b9d104b437e1f4850ae94bdb9a3601e89
Linux/Linux 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 - bad13de764888b765ceaa4668893b52bd16653cc
Linux/Linux 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 - bebd60ec3bf21062f103e32e6203c6daabdbd51b
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.15.99 - 5.15.*
... and 4 more
Published Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026