CVE-2022-50514: 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: usb: gadget: f_hid: fix refcount leak on error path When failing to allocate report_desc, opts->refcnt has already been incremented so it needs to be decremented to avoid leaving the options structure permanently locked.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.19, before 4.19.270 (fixed in 4.19.270); from 4.20, before 5.4.229 (fixed in 5.4.229); from 5.5, before 5.10.163 (fixed in 5.10.163); from 5.11, before 5.15.86 (fixed in 5.15.86); from 5.16, before 6.0.16 (fixed in 6.0.16); from 6.1, before 6.1.2 (fixed in 6.1.2)

Published 2025-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.