What is CVE-2022-49477?

CVE-2022-49477 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-02-26.

How severe is CVE-2022-49477?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-49477

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: samsung: Fix refcount leak in aries_audio_probe of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. If extcon_find_edev_by_node() fails, it doesn't call of_node_put() Calling of_node_put() after extcon_find_edev_by_node() to fix this.

EPSS: 0.003 (17.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 7a3a7671fa6c7e90aff5f4242add2a40587b85ef, 5.9, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-49477?: CVE-2022-49477 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-02-26.
How severe is CVE-2022-49477?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.