CVE-2022-50539 — Improper Update of Reference Count in Linux

CWE-911 — Improper Update of Reference Count5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug In omap4_sram_init(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node pointer with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when it is not used anymore.

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

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel3.18 — 6.1.16+1
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.20-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1306c08a7cd7e6136490ab2bc728d2c39741003e — 1d9452ae3bdb830f9309cf10a2f65977999cb14e+3
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h8r2-v2jm-jhwq: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug In omap4_sram_init(), of_find_c↗2025-10-07
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OSV
CVE-2022-50539: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug In omap4_sram_init(), of_find_com↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2022-50539: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: OMAP2+...↗2022
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