CVE-2022-50750 drm/panel/panel-sitronix-st7701: Remove panel on DSI attach failure
A memory leak in the Sitronix ST7701 panel driver occurs when DSI attachment fails, potentially leading to resource exhaustion and 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-2022-50750?
CVE-2022-50750 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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/panel/panel-sitronix-st7701: Remove panel on DSI attach failure
In case mipi_dsi_attach() fails, call drm_panel_remove() to avoid memory leak.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50750?
How do I fix CVE-2022-50750?
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-2022-50750 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50750 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50750, GHSA-4vj6-mf2w-wx4x, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50750.