CVE-2022-50624 (GCVE-0-2022-50624)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-08 01:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:22
VLAI
Title
net: netsec: fix error handling in netsec_register_mdio()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netsec: fix error handling in netsec_register_mdio() If phy_device_register() fails, phy_device_free() need be called to put refcount, so memory of phy device and device name can be freed in callback function. If get_phy_device() fails, mdiobus_unregister() need be called, or it will cause warning in mdiobus_free() and kobject is leaked.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < 728884b22d83148a330b23f9472f1e118b589211 (git)
Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < fda2d07234a21be4d71ebfe97a45f499726902d6 (git)
Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < 62f0a08e82a6312efd7df7f595c0b11d4ffde610 (git)
Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < 1e0bee973ef6fc3c1e3acb014515eaea37c8fa17 (git)
Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < 846e677daf51220d7975c61a20e440a88473951e (git)
Affected: 533dd11a12f698c571a12271b20f235792d3e148 , < 94423589689124e8cd145b38a1034be7f25835b2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.264 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.223 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.153 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.77 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.7 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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