CVE-2023-52662 is a memory-leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel VMware graphics driver, drm/vmwgfx, in vmw_gmrid_man_get_node. If ida_alloc_max fails after the function has allocated a resource with kmalloc and initialized it with ttm_resource_init, the failure path does not release the previously allocated resources.
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Linux kernel VMware graphics (vmwgfx) memory-leak issue in vmw_gmrid_man_get_node.
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A low-severity Linux kernel DRM VMware graphics (vmwgfx) driver memory-leak vulnerability in vmw_gmrid_man_get_node. The issue was resolved in upstream kernel releases and vendor updates.
A Linux kernel drm/vmwgfx memory-leak vulnerability in vmw_gmrid_man_get_node. Red Hat rates its impact as Low (CVSS 5.5) with local access, low privileges, and high availability impact for its products.
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