CVE-2022-49342: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: bgmac: Fix refcount leak in bcma_mdio_mii_register of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.8, before 5.17.15 (fixed in 5.17.15); from 5.18, before 5.18.4 (fixed in 5.18.4); version 5.19 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.