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

What is CVE-2022-50038?

CVE-2022-50038 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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:

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50038?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50038?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50038 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50038 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50038, GHSA-qw8m-3q37-v44j, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50038.