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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48896"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:10:28.674Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:49:16.759Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48896"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48896.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48896"
title: "ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak\n\nAs the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it\nreturns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish\nusing it, the caller must decrement the reference count by\ncalling pci_dev_put().\n\nIn ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(),\npci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53cefa802f070d46c0c518f4865be2c749818a18"},{"version":"8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"112df4cd2b09acd64bcd18f5ef83ba5d07b34bf0"},{"version":"8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c93422a54cd6a349988f42e1c6bf082cf4ea9d8"},{"version":"8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c49996c6aa03590e4ef5add8772cb6068d99fd59"},{"version":"8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b93fb4405fcb5112c5739c5349afb52ec7f15c07"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.164","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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