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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-50105 json

powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader

published 2025-06-18 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55371

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader

of_find_node_by_path() returns remote device nodepointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2, 6.0
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50105

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-197.208
  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-132.148
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-53.59
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1143.155
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1089.97
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1023.27
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1093.102
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1022.29

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50105

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-50105 updated

kernel: powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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