CVE-2022-50528 drm/amdkfd: Fix memory leakage
A memory leak and potential segmentation fault in the AMD KFD driver can lead to denial of service.
- 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-2022-50528?
CVE-2022-50528 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 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/amdkfd: Fix memory leakage
This patch fixes potential memory leakage and seg fault in _gpuvm_import_dmabuf() function
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50528?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-50528?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2022-50528 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50528 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50528, GHSA-7v92-q2qw-6x3c, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50528.