CVE-2025-22097 (GCVE-0-2025-22097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:12 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:42
VLAI?
Title
drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error If the driver initialization fails, the vkms_exit() function might access an uninitialized or freed default_config pointer and it might double free it. Fix both possible errors by initializing default_config only when the driver initialization succeeded.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < 49a69f67f53518bdd9b7eeebf019a2da6cc0e954 (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < 79d138d137b80eeb0a83244d1cff29e64cf91067 (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < 561fc0c5cf41f646f3e9e61784cbc0fc832fb936 (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < d5eb8e347905ab17788a7903fa1d3d06747355f5 (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < b8a18bb53e06d6d3c1fd03d12533d6e333ba8853 (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < 1f68f1cf09d06061eb549726ff8339e064eddebd (git)
Affected: 2df7af93fdadb9ba8226fe443fae15ecdefda2a6 , < ed15511a773df86205bda66c37193569575ae828 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.180 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.134 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.87 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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