CVE-2022-50777
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Publication date: 2025-12-24
Last updated on: 2025-12-29
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe
of_phy_find_device() return device node with refcount incremented.
Call put_device() to relese it when not needed anymore.
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| CWE ID | Description |
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| CWE-UNKNOWN |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a reference count leak in the Linux kernel's network PHY driver xgmiitorgmii. Specifically, the function of_phy_find_device() returns a device node with its reference count incremented, but the code did not properly call put_device() to release it when it was no longer needed, causing a resource leak.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The reference count leak can lead to resource exhaustion in the kernel, potentially causing degraded system performance or instability over time as resources are not properly freed.
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