# CVE-2022-50123: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Fix refcount leak in mt8173\_rt5650\_rt5676\_dev\_probe

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-18 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Fix refcount leak in mt8173_rt5650_rt5676_dev_probe of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. Fix missing of_node_put() in error paths.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa668f8e93199cda8fa1612eb49ff70f5ecd8c92
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fab5eb31819a2693b0c3d6f3df6a0d193af9a089
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6d41f04640db0f946e2c3f7963bb2774afc7a0d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1214ece37944e4dbbb5cfb1d02bf37e4d89b02
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/540c7b7385fb110740703888b4b2bbfa06c7f79c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769399bce8825e1dcc5050dab78e15ab578baf4f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58567ed2878f70e0ded242cb529fb4a7618ea9f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae4f11c1ed2d67192fdf3d89db719ee439827c11

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