Overview
About vulnerability
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.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)
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.