CVE-2022-49652 dmaengine: ti: Fix refcount leak in ti_dra7_xbar_route_allocate

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A refcount leak in the Linux kernel DMA engine driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
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Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-49652?

CVE-2022-49652 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: ti: Fix refcount leak in ti_dra7_xbar_route_allocate

of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not needed anymore.

Add missing of_node_put() in to fix this.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49652?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49652?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-49652 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49652 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49652, GHSA-hx37-538m-7q9c, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49652.

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