PT-2025-8171 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Published

2022-03-07

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Updated

2025-04-15

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CVE-2022-49243

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

VectorAV: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 atmel driver. The problem arises from a missing of node put() call in the at91sam9g20ek audio probe function, which is necessary to avoid a refcount leak because the of parse phandle() function returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

BDU:2026-03663
CVE-2022-49243
OESA-2025-1336
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