# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50246"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:02:04.841Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:15:35.968Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
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-2022-50246"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50246.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50246"
title: "usb: typec: tcpci: fix of node refcount leak in tcpci_register_port()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: tcpci: fix of node refcount leak in tcpci_register_port()\n\nI got the following report while doing device(mt6370-tcpc) load\ntest with CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST and CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC enabled:\n\n  OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,\n  of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:\n  attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@34/tcpc/connector\n\nThe 'fwnode' set in tcpci_parse_config() which is called\nin tcpci_register_port(), its node refcount is increased\nin device_get_named_child_node(). It needs be put while\nexiting, so call fwnode_handle_put() in the error path of\ntcpci_register_port() and in tcpci_unregister_port() to\navoid leak."
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