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CVE-2022-50777 (GCVE-0-2022-50777)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:06 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:25
VLAI
Title
net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe of_phy_find_device() return device node with refcount incremented. Call put_device() to relese it when not needed anymore.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3f7056e1822d648f8022997497edc6cad2ad1e73 , < 53526dbc8aa6b95e9fc2ab1e29b1a9145721da24 (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < 78b0b1ff525d9be4babf5a148a4de0d50042d95d (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < 00616bd1913a4f879679e02dc08c2f501ca2bd4c (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < 106d0d33c9d1ec4ddeeffc1fdc717ff09953d4ed (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < 4d112f001612c79927c1ecf29522b34c4fa292e0 (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < 52841e71253e6ace72751c72560950474a57d04c (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < ee84d37a5f08ed1121cdd16f8f3ed87552087a21 (git)
Affected: ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c , < d039535850ee47079d59527e96be18d8e0daa84b (git)
Affected: a5a849c9e8a6c357f84a5e249cb468f20da6d28f (git)
Affected: 900812a0d318954400d20b0190c7d788b4ff2cc2 (git)
Affected: 4.14.74 , < 4.14.303 (semver)
Affected: 4.9.131 , < 4.10 (semver)
Affected: 4.18.12 , < 4.19 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.303 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.270 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.87 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.19 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.5 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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