CVE-2022-49752: 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: device property: fix of node refcount leak in fwnode_graph_get_next_endpoint() The 'parent' returned by fwnode_graph_get_port_parent() with refcount incremented when 'prev' is not NULL, it needs be put when finish using it. Because the parent is const, introduce a new variable to store the returned fwnode, then put it before returning from fwnode_graph_get_next_endpoint().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 5.15.91 (fixed in 5.15.91); from 5.16, before 6.1.9 (fixed in 6.1.9); version 6.2 only

Published 2025-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.