CVE-2022-49011: 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: hwmon: (coretemp) fix pci device refcount leak in nv1a_ram_new() As comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a pci device with refcount increment, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). So call it after using to avoid refcount leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.14, before 4.9.335 (fixed in 4.9.335); from 4.10, before 4.14.301 (fixed in 4.14.301); from 4.15, before 4.19.268 (fixed in 4.19.268); from 4.20, before 5.4.226 (fixed in 5.4.226); from 5.5, before 5.10.158 (fixed in 5.10.158); from 5.11, before 5.15.82 (fixed in 5.15.82); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.