5.5

CVE-2022-50038: drm/meson: Fix refcount bugs in meson_vpu_has_available_connectors()

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50038DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50038
Published 18-06-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50038 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.25%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6
SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1

Timeline

  1. 18-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/meson: Fix refcount bugs in meson_vpu_has_available_connectors() In this function, there are two refcount leak bugs: (1) when breaking out of for_each_endpoint_of_node(), we need call the of_node_put() for the 'ep'; (2) we should call of_node_put() for the reference returned by of_graph_get_remote_port() when it is not used anymore.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.25%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

17%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.25% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu110 products
  • linux< 4.15.0-197.208 | < 5.4.0-132.148 | < 5.15.0-53.59
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 4.15.0-1143.155 | < 5.4.0-1089.97 | < 5.15.0-1023.27
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < 6a758f0ba11699837af9e1a0f7cbac6ef765a23e | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < fc1fc2abfcb9235d0ece9a4d858426fb617cfa66 | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < d58ef256781398ad115aef44de0a02ad27ea6c3a | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < 3aa710e96747c8b4e52ba12ffe09edcb2755897c | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < fe71d84c1a6c0d54657431e8eeaefc9d24895304 | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < 8dec38e19f6928235d4009ce55f7add8af34e5c7 | ≥ bbbe775ec5b5dace43a35886da9924837da09ddd, < 91b3c8dbe898df158fd2a84675f3a284ff6666f7 | 4.10
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.10, < 4.14.291 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.256 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.211 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.138 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.63 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.19.4 | 6.0:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.2-1

3 vendors · 113 products

References

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