CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50162
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe()
usb_get_dev will be called before lbs_get_firmware_async which means that
usb_put_dev need to be called when lbs_get_firmware_async fails.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 4.14.291)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.256)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.211)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.137)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d0c4e59c0f8ad1f86874bb64b220394e687028 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c8e2f9ce1428e44cb103035eeced7aeb6b80980 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b92f406a5199b6b01dc664b9226d824ae2835f0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b2ec97487399c58ae2e34f250f4884e671799b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fd57e1d120bf13d4dc6c200a7cf914e6347a316 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/878e7f39803a9ab5bb9766956a7a04351d4bf99d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97e5d3e46a3a2100253a9717a4df98d68aeb10b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7365590d15bbd9008f424ef043d1778ffe29f42 Patch