CVE-2022-50659

A reference count leak was found in the AMD Geode hardware random number generator driver in the Linux kernel. When breaking out of the foreachpcidev loop early, the driver fails to call pcidevput to decrement the PCI device reference count, leading to a memory leak that could exhaust system...

CVE-2022-50659

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak foreachpcidev is implemented by pcigetdevice. The comment of pcigetdevice says that it will increase the reference count for the returned pcidev and also decrease the reference count fo...