CVE-2022-50823 — Improper Update of Reference Count in Linux
Severity
3.3LOW
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 84.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra114_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.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2cb5efefd6f7d3e7df9a7430b910a80515821256 — 1f0e1cbbaffd729560716e9592aa5e609ea93bb6+9
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50823: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra114_clock_init of_find_matching_node() retur↗2025-12-30
GHSA▶
GHSA-34vm-p5v7-6w29: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: tegra: Fix refcount leak in tegra114_clock_init
of_find_matching_node() ret↗2025-12-30