CVE-2022-49717

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.18-5.18.5 - Refcount Leak in irqchip/apple-aic

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/apple-aic: Fix refcount leak in build_fiq_affinity of_find_node_by_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dc14cebe5dc053434b507bb24e6821cb795050f

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1ac803f47cb1615468f35cf1ccb553c52087301

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 12.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published

Products (9)

linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 5.18.6linux

Linux/Linux < 5.18

Linux/Linux 5.18

Linux/Linux 5.18.6 - 5.18.*

Linux/Linux 5.19

Linux/Linux a5e8801202b318622ea526aa5625e5f7eceb4d26 - 2dc14cebe5dc053434b507bb24e6821cb795050f

Linux/Linux a5e8801202b318622ea526aa5625e5f7eceb4d26 - b1ac803f47cb1615468f35cf1ccb553c52087301

linux/linux_kernel 5.19 rc1 (2 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel 5.18 - 5.18.6

Published Feb 26, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026