CVE-2022-49477: 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: ASoC: samsung: Fix refcount leak in aries_audio_probe of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. If extcon_find_edev_by_node() fails, it doesn't call of_node_put() Calling of_node_put() after extcon_find_edev_by_node() to fix this.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.9, before 5.10.121 (fixed in 5.10.121); from 5.11, before 5.15.46 (fixed in 5.15.46); from 5.16, before 5.17.14 (fixed in 5.17.14); from 5.18, before 5.18.3 (fixed in 5.18.3)

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