PT-2025-26087 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Published 2025-06-18 · Updated 2025-11-18 · CVE-2022-50161

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A refcount leak issue has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the of flash probe versatile function within the mtd maps component. The of find matching node and match() function returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount, which should be decremented using of node put() when no longer needed to prevent a refcount leak. This issue has been resolved by adding the missing of node put() call.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-50161

SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1

SUSE-SU-2025:2264-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02264-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02308-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02537-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linux Kernel

Suse

References · 601

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50161.json · Exploit
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d5ddd8771fa9cabeb247fba5f6ab60d63f3fbce · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9124d51e01232a91da4034768a2a8d1688472179 · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f516fbb63873ee23cba5b7c3d239677c30f13df8 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d67c8f74d804b20febf716ec96e9a475457ec60 · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33ec82a6d2b119938f26e5c8040ed5d92378eb54 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50161 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79e57889aa0d92a6d769bad808fb105e7b6ea495 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50161 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c8de6a838b7e0eb392754ac89dd66e698684342 · Patch