CVE-2022-50162: 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: wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe() usb_get_dev will be called before lbs_get_firmware_async which means that usb_put_dev need to be called when lbs_get_firmware_async fails.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.5, before 4.14.291 (fixed in 4.14.291); from 4.15, before 4.19.256 (fixed in 4.19.256); from 4.20, before 5.4.211 (fixed in 5.4.211); from 5.5, before 5.10.137 (fixed in 5.10.137); from 5.11, before 5.15.61 (fixed in 5.15.61); from 5.16, before 5.18.18 (fixed in 5.18.18); …

Published 2025-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.