CVE-2022-49135 drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A memory leak in the AMD display driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting system memory.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-49135?

CVE-2022-49135 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Fix memory leak

[why] Resource release is needed on the error handling path to prevent memory leak.

[how] Fix this by adding kfree on the error handling path.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49135?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49135?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-49135 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49135 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49135, GHSA-8v22-4px4-6c2p, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-49135, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49135.

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