CVE-2022-50162

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:

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.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+13 more)

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.

Fixes