Bug 2373566 (CVE-2022-50119)

Summary: CVE-2022-50119 kernel: rpmsg: Fix possible refcount leak in rpmsg_register_device_override()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:08:37 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rpmsg: Fix possible refcount leak in rpmsg_register_device_override()

rpmsg_register_device_override need to call put_device to free vch when
driver_set_override fails.

Fix this by adding a put_device() to the error path.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 11:16:15 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061810-CVE-2022-50119-3664@gregkh/T