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CVE-2022-50480 (GCVE-0-2022-50480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:20
VLAI
Title
memory: pl353-smc: Fix refcount leak bug in pl353_smc_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memory: pl353-smc: Fix refcount leak bug in pl353_smc_probe() The break of for_each_available_child_of_node() needs a corresponding of_node_put() when the reference 'child' is not used anymore. Here we do not need to call of_node_put() in fail path as '!match' means no break. While the of_platform_device_create() will created a new reference by 'child' but it has considered the refcounting.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < b37f4a711e5d4bf3608ccbc6de82b52e92b441a0 (git)
Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < fde46754d5483bc398018bbec3c8ef5c55219e67 (git)
Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < 566b143aa5112a0c2784e20603778518bb799537 (git)
Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < 44db35ceb94756ba513dcf6b69bf9e949b28469c (git)
Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < 49605dc25e7fb33bf8b671279d4468531da90f89 (git)
Affected: fee10bd2267868f2a3e7ba008ef7665aac5e4412 , < 61b3c876c1cbdb1efd1f52a1f348580e6e14efb6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.220 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.150 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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