Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource Affecting kernel-uki-virt package, versions <0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELUKIVIRT-14404642
  • published13 Dec 2025
  • disclosed9 Dec 2025

Introduced: 9 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2022-50667  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-771  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-uki-virt to version 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:6583.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uki-virt package and not the kernel-uki-virt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1