CVE-2022-50458 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra210_clock_init
of_find_matching_node() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux6b301a059eb2ebed1b12a900e3b21a38e48dd410 — a19360db83d29bd6b0de4ffad2c815d79246ba99+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-vgvc-9956-9x6j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra210_clock_init
of_find_matching_node() ret↗2025-10-01
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50458: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra210_clock_init of_find_matching_node() retur↗2025-10-01