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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-49011

CVE-2022-49011

Description

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

hwmon: (coretemp) fix pci device refcount leak in nv1a_ram_new()

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 after using to avoid refcount leak.

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