What is CVE-2022-50539?

CVE-2022-50539 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2022-50539?

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

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50539

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug In omap4_sram_init(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node pointer with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when it is not used anymore.

EPSS: 0.001 (4.1th 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 1306c08a7cd7e6136490ab2bc728d2c39741003e, 3.18, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-50539?: CVE-2022-50539 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-50539?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.