PT-2025-8171
CVE-2022-49243
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Published
2022-03-07
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Updated
2025-04-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 ASoC atmel driver. The problem arises from a missing
of node put() call in the at91sam9g20ek audio probe function, which is necessary to avoid a refcount leak because the of parse phandle() function returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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