CVE-2022-50777: net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50777DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50777
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 23-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50777 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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 5

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe of_phy_find_device() return device node with refcount incremented. Call put_device() to relese it when not needed anymore.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

20%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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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: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu120 products
  • linux< 4.15.0-208.220 | < 5.4.0-144.161 | < 5.15.0-69.76
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 4.15.0-1153.166 | < 5.4.0-1097.105 | < 5.15.0-1033.37
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.7-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 3f7056e1822d648f8022997497edc6cad2ad1e73, < 53526dbc8aa6b95e9fc2ab1e29b1a9145721da24 | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < 78b0b1ff525d9be4babf5a148a4de0d50042d95d | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < 00616bd1913a4f879679e02dc08c2f501ca2bd4c | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < 106d0d33c9d1ec4ddeeffc1fdc717ff09953d4ed | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < 4d112f001612c79927c1ecf29522b34c4fa292e0 | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < 52841e71253e6ace72751c72560950474a57d04c | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < ee84d37a5f08ed1121cdd16f8f3ed87552087a21 | ≥ ab4e6ee578e88a659938db8fbf33720bc048d29c, < d039535850ee47079d59527e96be18d8e0daa84b | a5a849c9e8a6c357f84a5e249cb468f20da6d28f | 900812a0d318954400d20b0190c7d788b4ff2cc2 | ≥ 4.14.74, < 4.14.303 | ≥ 4.9.131, < 4.10 | ≥ 4.18.12, < 4.19 | 4.19

3 vendors · 122 products

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