CVE-2022-50184

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A refcount leak issue has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the drm/meson module, related to the encoder hdmi initialization. The of graph get remote node() function returns a remote device node pointer with an incremented refcount, but a missing of node put() call was causing a refcount leak. This issue has been resolved by adding the necessary of node put() call to avoid the leak.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.