CVE-2022-50275 drm/radeon: Add the missed acpi_put_table() to fix memory leak

What is CVE-2022-50275?

CVE-2022-50275 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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/radeon: Add the missed acpi_put_table() to fix memory leak

When the radeon driver reads the bios information from ACPI table in radeon_acpi_vfct_bios(), it misses to call acpi_put_table() to release the ACPI memory after the init, so add acpi_put_table() properly to fix the memory leak.

v2: fix text formatting (Alex)

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50275?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50275?

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-2022-50275 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50275 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50275, GHSA-4m7p-8mq4-h9jm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50275.