CVE-2022-49591 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: microchip: ksz_common: Fix refcount leak bug

In ksz_switch_register() we should call of_node_put() for the reference returned by of_get_child_by_name() which has increased the refcount.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4165e02716518bbbe9c9104b39530d40928bc7ce https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88ec2ff42da3ac93b2437dc52fe25cd4372148e6 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a14bd7475452c51835dd5a0cee4c8fa48dd0b539