CVE-2022-50019 (GCVE-0-2022-50019)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
tty: serial: Fix refcount leak bug in ucc_uart.c
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: Fix refcount leak bug in ucc_uart.c
In soc_info(), of_find_node_by_type() will return a node pointer
with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when it is
not used anymore.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < 8245e7d1d7f75a9255ad1e8146752e5051d528b8
(git)
Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < ec56f886f3bf0f15f7a3844d4c025e165b8e8de7 (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < 59bc4c19d53bdac61ec952c01c6e864f5f0f8367 (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < ca3fc1c38e4253bc019881301a28ea60b8b0bca3 (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < 81939c4fbc2d5c754d0f1c1f05149d4b70d751ed (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < 17c32546166d8a7d2579c4b57c8b16241f94a66b (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < f6ed634eedb1a8a6a8cb110a7695c7abb70ffcbf (git) Affected: d7584ed2b994a572326650b0c4d2c25961e6f49d , < d24d7bb2cd947676f9b71fb944d045e09b8b282f (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.25
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.25 (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.326 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.291 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.256 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.211 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.138 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.63 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.4 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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