CVE-2022-50153

Updated on 18 Jun 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: host: Fix refcount leak in ehci_hcd_ppc_of_probe

of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: host: Fix refcount leak in ehci_hcd_ppc_of_probe

of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Fixes