CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-48896

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-08-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 5.4.229) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.164) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.89) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.7) • linux linux kernel 6.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References