CVE-2022-50111 ASoC: mt6359: Fix refcount leak bug

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A refcount leak in the mt6359 audio driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service in the Linux kernel.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-50111?

CVE-2022-50111 is a medium-severity memory corruption 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:

ASoC: mt6359: Fix refcount leak bug

In mt6359_parse_dt() and mt6359_accdet_parse_dt(), we should call of_node_put() for the reference returned by of_get_child_by_name() which has increased the refcount.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50111?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50111?

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-2022-50111 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50111 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50111, GHSA-34mx-7qhf-2323, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50111, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50111.

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