CVE-2022-49486: 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: fsl: Fix refcount leak in imx_sgtl5000_probe of_find_i2c_device_by_node() takes a reference, In error paths, we should call put_device() to drop the reference to aviod refount leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.5, before 5.4.198 (fixed in 5.4.198); from 5.5, 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.