CVE-2022-50777: Linux

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe of_phy_find_device() return device node with refcount incremented. Call put_device() to relese it when not needed anymore.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 4.14.74, before 4.14.303 (fixed in 4.14.303); from 4.9.131, before 4.10 (fixed in 4.10); from 4.18.12, before 4.19 (fixed in 4.19); from 4.19, 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); …

Published 2025-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.