CVE-2022-50834 json
nfc: Fix potential resource leaks
published 2025-12-30 10 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55864
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: Fix potential resource leaks
nfc_get_device() take reference for the device, add missing nfc_put_device() to release it when not need anymore. Also fix the style warnning by use error EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOTSUPP.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.19, 6.1.5, 6.2
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.7-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50834
- linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-208.220
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-144.161
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-69.76
- linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1153.166
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1097.105
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.37
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1101.110
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1031.38
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50834
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
- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
- kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
- kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0473-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/277f0d0a9084e7454e5532c823a7a876a7b00af7 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1d912e7f82d7216ba4e266048ec1d1f5ea93839 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8e410315ad393b23520b5db0706be853589c548 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0f5c962c066e769c187f037fedc883f8abd4e82 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b63bc2db244c1b57e36f16ea5f2a1becda413f68 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a743128fca394a43425020a4f287d3168d94d04f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b32f6bef248562bb5191ada527717ea50b319466 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/df49908f3c52d211aea5e2a14a93bbe67a2cb3af commit
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-2022-50834 updated
kernel: nfc: Fix potential resource leaks
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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 kernelnot 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
0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/277f0d0a9084e7454e5532c823a7a876a7b00af7
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d1d912e7f82d7216ba4e266048ec1d1f5ea93839
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d8e410315ad393b23520b5db0706be853589c548
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e0f5c962c066e769c187f037fedc883f8abd4e82
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b63bc2db244c1b57e36f16ea5f2a1becda413f68
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a743128fca394a43425020a4f287d3168d94d04f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b32f6bef248562bb5191ada527717ea50b319466
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/df49908f3c52d211aea5e2a14a93bbe67a2cb3af
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-50834
- NVD CVE-2022-50834
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