CVE-2022-50176 drm/mcde: Fix refcount leak in mcde_dsi_bind

What is CVE-2022-50176?

CVE-2022-50176 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/mcde: Fix refcount leak in mcde_dsi_bind

Every iteration of for_each_available_child_of_node() decrements the reference counter of the previous node. There is no decrement when break out from the loop and results in refcount leak. Add missing of_node_put() to fix this.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50176?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50176?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50176 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50176 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-2022-50176, GHSA-jrgx-v33c-5f8g, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50176.