CVE-2022-50188

drm/meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_encoder_hdmi_init

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

18 Jun 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_encoder_hdmi_init of_find_device_by_node() takes reference, we should use put_device() to release it when not need anymore. Add missing put_device() in error path to avoid refcount leak.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50446ac34545580d073ff0dd154b796726772668 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7381076809586528e2a812a709e2758916318a99 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79b15eb0aa059b3a5bc60364ce82eb2cefac80db https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfcca6234b2a36d213f0cc1c127becc17680f7df