CVE-2022-50868

hwrng: amd - Fix PCI device refcount leak

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

hwrng: amd - Fix PCI device refcount leak

for_each_pci_dev() is implemented by pci_get_device(). The comment of

pci_get_device() says that it will increase the reference count for the

returned pci_dev and also decrease the reference count for the input

pci_dev @from if it is not NULL.

If we break for_each_pci_dev() loop with pdev not NULL, we need to call

pci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count. Add the missing

pci_dev_put() for the normal and error path.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00242 · 14.5th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:15Z
    hwrng: amd - Fix PCI device refcount leak
    cvelistv5