CVE-2022-49679 (GCVE-0-2022-49679)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:24 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
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Title
ARM: Fix refcount leak in axxia_boot_secondary
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: Fix refcount leak in axxia_boot_secondary of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < a9b76c232a1ce4cbf27862097f7eb634dcc779eb (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < b385cb59aac8d61c29bc72ebf3d19a536914af96 (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 71e12e5b02674459a24f16e965255d63b31fe049 (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 29ca9c4efacccdc15104a8d4bf10b5183fc92840 (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 44a5b3a073e5aaa5720929dba95b2725eb32bb65 (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 4d9c60e868f7cf8e09956e7d5bb44d807d712699 (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 3c19fe3f04f4f4e7a2b722c2fd3c98356fc1d72b (git)
Affected: 1d22924e1c4e299337e86e290c02c3e3eb43b608 , < 7c7ff68daa93d8c4cdea482da4f2429c0398fcde (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.321 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.286 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.250 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.202 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.127 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.51 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.8 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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