CVE-2022-49716: 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 error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. When kcalloc fails, it missing of_node_put() and results in refcount leak. Fix this by goto out_put_node label.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.4, 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.