CVE-2022-50505 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.184.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-14042269
  • published18 Nov 2025
  • disclosed15 Nov 2025

Introduced: 15 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.184.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/amd: Fix pci device refcount leak in ppr_notifier()

As comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a pci device with refcount increment, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). So call it before returning from ppr_notifier() to avoid refcount leak.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1