{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50659 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-50659 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 2025."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50659 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-50659 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 2025. \nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50659 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50659/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50659/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-50659","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50659/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-50659","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50659","GHSA-q98r-g989-36w3","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50659"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"unknown","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A missing reference count decrement in the Geode hardware random number generator driver can lead to a memory leak and potential denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak\n\nfor_each_pci_dev() is implemented by pci_get_device(). The comment of\npci_get_device() says that it will increase the reference count for the\nreturned pci_dev and also decrease the reference count for the input\npci_dev @from if it is not NULL.\n\nIf we break for_each_pci_dev() loop with pdev not NULL, we need to call\npci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count. We add a new struct\n'amd_geode_priv' to record pointer of the pci_dev and membase, and then\nadd missing pci_dev_put() for the normal and error path.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak","id":"CVE-2022-50659","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()","id":"CVE-2022-50660"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"cpufreq: qcom: fix memory leak in error path","id":"CVE-2022-50658"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing reference count decrement in the Geode hardware random number generator driver can lead to a memory leak and potential denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50659/"}