Service interruption via unreleased display interconnect path
Published Aug 21, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
Memory leak in MSM display handling in Linux 5.19 through 6.1.6 allows local users to exhaust kernel memory and interrupt service. During display interconnect parsing, msm_mdss_parse_data_bus_icc_path obtains path1 before validating path0 and returns without releasing path1 when path0 is null or erroneous. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and an affected Qualcomm MSM display configuration; the bounded impact is availability loss from kernel-memory exhaustion.
Summary
What happened
Memory leak in MSM display handling in Linux 5.19 through 6.1.6 allows local users to exhaust kernel memory and interrupt service. During display interconnect parsing, msm_mdss_parse_data_bus_icc_path obtains path1 before validating path0 and returns without releasing path1 when path0 is null or erroneous. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and an affected Qualcomm MSM display configuration; the bounded impact is availability loss from kernel-memory exhaustion.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-48888
- Published
- Aug 21, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-401, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.19
- Affected versionversion=b9364eed9232f3d2a846f68c2307eb25c93cc2d0 <45dac1352b55b1d8cb17f218936b2bc2bc1fb4ee
- Affected versionversion=b9364eed9232f3d2a846f68c2307eb25c93cc2d0 <c6fa1de83fd87267ab24359e6fa52f98f5cee3f9
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