Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-49716 - Unspecified vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. When kcalloc fails, it missing of_node_put() and results in refcount leak. Fix this by goto out_put_node label.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b325d993995a321f6ab4e6c51f0504ec092bf5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e67c81e229351027d28c610638378606e33a08
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c9dd9d23f26dabcfb14148b9acdfba540418b19
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c83c34c57798fc41faefcf078be78683db2f4beb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8401a429ffee34ccf38cebf3443f8d5ae6cb0d