CVE-2022-48856: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gianfar: ethtool: Fix refcount leak in gfar_get_ts_info The of_find_compatible_node() function returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when done Add the missing of_node_put() to release the refcount.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.18, before 4.19.235 (fixed in 4.19.235); from 4.20, before 5.4.185 (fixed in 5.4.185); from 5.5, before 5.10.106 (fixed in 5.10.106); from 5.11, before 5.15.29 (fixed in 5.15.29); from 5.16, before 5.16.15 (fixed in 5.16.15)

Published 2024-07-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.