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CVE-2022-50311

Medium 5.5

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl: Fix refcount leak in cxl_calc_capp_routing of_get_next_parent() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. This function only calls of_node_put() in normal path, missing it in the error path. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Affected products

linux: linux kernel

References8

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUM Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 5 · as of 8 November 2026

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