Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-48961: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-48961: kernel security update

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

10/21/2024

Created

02/12/2025

Added

02/11/2025

Modified

02/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release() There is warning report about of_node refcount leak while probing mdio device: OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2, of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach overlay node /spi/soc@0/mdio@710700c0/ethernet@4 In of_mdiobus_register_device(), we increase fwnode refcount by fwnode_handle_get() before associating the of_node with mdio device, but it has never been decreased in normal path. Since that, in mdio_device_release(), it needs to call fwnode_handle_put() in addition instead of calling kfree() directly. After above, just calling mdio_device_free() in the error handle path of of_mdiobus_register_device() is enough to keep the refcount balanced.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-bpftool
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2022-48961
• CVE - 2022-48961
• EulerOS-SA-2025-1159