CVE-2022-48896

ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak

published August 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak

As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it

returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish

using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by

calling pci_dev_put().

In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(),

pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00239 · 14.1th percentile
Published
2024-08-21T06:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 06:10Z
    ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak
    cvelistv5