Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50196

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: qcom: ocmem: Fix refcount leak in ofgetocmem ofparsephandle returns a node pointer with...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50196

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: qcom: ocmem: Fix refcount leak in ofgetocmem ofparsephandle returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use ofnodeput on it when not need anymore. Add missing ofnodeput to avoid refcount leak. ofnodeput will...

CVE-2022-50196

In the Linux kernel, the vulnerability CVE-2022-50196 affects the soc: qcom: ocmem path. It stems from a refcount leak in of_parse_phandle() where the returned node pointer’s refcount isn’t released; a missing of_node_put() caused the leak. The fix adds a proper of_node_put() on the node when it ...