CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49591
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: microchip: ksz_common: Fix refcount leak bug
In ksz_switch_register(), we should call of_node_put() for the
reference returned by of_get_child_by_name() which has increased
the refcount.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.9 < 5.15.58)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.15)
• linux linux kernel 5.19
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4165e02716518bbbe9c9104b39530d40928bc7ce Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88ec2ff42da3ac93b2437dc52fe25cd4372148e6 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a14bd7475452c51835dd5a0cee4c8fa48dd0b539 Mailing List, Patch