CVE-2022-50191 (GCVE-0-2022-50191)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:14
VLAI
Title
regulator: of: Fix refcount leak bug in of_get_regulation_constraints()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: of: Fix refcount leak bug in of_get_regulation_constraints() We should call the of_node_put() for the reference returned by of_get_child_by_name() which has increased the refcount.
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Linux Linux Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < a23098cc32860272dc6c3200ff20c34c65b7b694 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < b9ca8585c766616563cf3c062c6878f61f83cf00 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < 35f9e861d9b9434903a8ede37a3561f78985826d (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < 332e555dca074c4eb2084898021c3676423814c3 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < c9df8ff290097aabd5c9200f7f729b0813d37b19 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < 11ecb4f8735b0230d54a82c18b21ea778b695d61 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < fc7b19f547bc9e622060a0a9a39da2330aa21c53 (git)
Affected: 40e20d68bb3fb1ce2704c886d597918988d3321d , < 66efb665cd5ad69b27dca8571bf89fc6b9c628a4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.291 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.256 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.211 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.137 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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