CVE-2022-50162 (GCVE-0-2022-50162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:14
VLAI
Title
wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe() usb_get_dev will be called before lbs_get_firmware_async which means that usb_put_dev need to be called when lbs_get_firmware_async fails.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 61b2ec97487399c58ae2e34f250f4884e671799b (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 4c8e2f9ce1428e44cb103035eeced7aeb6b80980 (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 878e7f39803a9ab5bb9766956a7a04351d4bf99d (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 97e5d3e46a3a2100253a9717a4df98d68aeb10b8 (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < d7365590d15bbd9008f424ef043d1778ffe29f42 (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 00d0c4e59c0f8ad1f86874bb64b220394e687028 (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 5b92f406a5199b6b01dc664b9226d824ae2835f0 (git)
Affected: ce84bb69f50e6f6cfeabc9b965365290f4184417 , < 6fd57e1d120bf13d4dc6c200a7cf914e6347a316 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.291 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.256 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.211 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.137 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "current_release_date": "2026-06-30T10:25:18+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2022-50162",
      "id": "CVE-2022-50162",
      "initial_release_date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "274",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: wifi: libertas: Fix possible refcount leak in if_usb_probe()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2022/cve-2022-50162.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-09-12T17:10:38Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2022-50162",
      "id": "CVE-2022-50162",
      "initial_release_date": "2025-06-19T03:40:09Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "495",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "245",
      "product_status:recommended": "310",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2022-50162",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2022-50162.json",
      "version": "72"
    }
  }
}



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