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CVE-2022-50188 (GCVE-0-2022-50188)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:14
VLAI
Title
drm/meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_encoder_hdmi_init
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_encoder_hdmi_init of_find_device_by_node() takes reference, we should use put_device() to release it when not need anymore. Add missing put_device() in error path 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
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e098989a9219f4456047f9b0e8c44f03e29a843e , < 50446ac34545580d073ff0dd154b796726772668 (git)
Affected: 0af5e0b41110e2da872030395231ab19c45be931 , < 79b15eb0aa059b3a5bc60364ce82eb2cefac80db (git)
Affected: 0af5e0b41110e2da872030395231ab19c45be931 , < bfcca6234b2a36d213f0cc1c127becc17680f7df (git)
Affected: 0af5e0b41110e2da872030395231ab19c45be931 , < 7381076809586528e2a812a709e2758916318a99 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (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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