CVE-2022-49717: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/apple-aic: Fix refcount leak in build_fiq_affinity 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 5.18, before 5.18.6 (fixed in 5.18.6); version 5.19 only

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