5.5

CVE-2022-50479: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50479DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50479
Published 04-10-2025Last modified 15-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50479 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.14%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2
RHSA-2023:6583RHSA-2023:7077SUSE-SU-2025:4149-1SUSE-SU-2025:4320-1

Timeline

  1. 04-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src) when function run into last return NULL. s/free/kfree/ - Alex

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu124 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 3cffeffe051a961417bc26f2053bced4cff83119, < a6e6ab9caeac96b277a3fe7da1dfa8f69a591759 | ≥ 3cffeffe051a961417bc26f2053bced4cff83119, < 6160216fd2c97107e8a9ab39863b056d677fcd85 | 6.0
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 6.0.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.3-1

3 vendors · 127 products

References

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