PT-2025-8170 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Miaoqian Lin · Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-04-15 · CVE-2022-49242

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 ASoC mxs sgtl5000 probe function. This issue occurs when the function fails to properly release reference counts in error paths, such as when codec np is NULL but saif np[0] and saif np[1] are not NULL. The of node put() function is used to release the refcount of regular pointers.

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

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-49242

OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1263-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1194-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1027-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1241-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1263-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linux Kernel

Suse

References · 1346

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49242.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d38056bcd220ea6f0802a5586d1a12ebcce849 · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44acdaf7acb60054d872bed18ce0e7db8ce900ce · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d880226c86f37624e2a5f3c6d92ac0ec3375f96 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49242 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f16ad2c0e22687f80e5981c67374023f51c204b9 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-49242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1194-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49242 · Security Note