CVE-2022-49342

net: ethernet: bgmac: Fix refcount leak in bcma_mdio_mii_register

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: ethernet: bgmac: Fix refcount leak in bcma_mdio_mii_register

of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount

incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.

Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00259 · 16.6th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:10Z
    net: ethernet: bgmac: Fix refcount leak in bcma_mdio_mii_register
    cvelistv5