CVE-2022-49715: 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: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix refcount leak in gic_populate_ppi_partitions of_find_node_by_phandle() 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 4.7, before 4.19.249 (fixed in 4.19.249); from 4.20, before 5.4.200 (fixed in 5.4.200); from 5.5, before 5.10.124 (fixed in 5.10.124); from 5.11, before 5.15.49 (fixed in 5.15.49); from 5.16, before 5.18.6 (fixed in 5.18.6); version 5.19 only

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