PT-2025-8611 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Miaoqian Lin · Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-04-15 · CVE-2022-49678

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 brcmstb pm probe function. The of find matching node() function returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount, which should be released using of node put() when no longer needed to prevent a refcount leak. Additionally, in the brcmstb init sram function, a reference is taken by of find device by node() when calling of address to resource(), and the reference returned by of find matching node() should be released.

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

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-49678

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

References · 1363

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49678.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49678 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47659 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49678 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49335 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49508 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49720 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49727 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49053 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/734a4d15142bb4c8ecad2d8ec70d7564e78ae34d · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37d838de369b07b596c19ff3662bf0293fdb09ee · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49678 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30bbfeb480ae8b5ee43199d72417b232590440c2 · Patch