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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50724" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:22:46.251Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:24:58.423Z" 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-2022-50724" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50724.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50724" title: "regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nregulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()\n\nI got some resource leak reports while doing fault injection test:\n\n OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 100,\n of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:\n attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@64/regulators/buck1\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810deea000 (size 512):\n comm \"490-i2c-rt5190a\", pid 253, jiffies 4294859840 (age 5061.046s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........\n ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff a0 1e 00 a1 ff ff ff ff ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000d78541e2\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x21/0x110\n [\u003c00000000b343d153\u003e] device_private_init+0x32/0xd0\n [\u003c00000000be1f0c70\u003e] device_add+0xb2d/0x1030\n [\u003c00000000e3e6344d\u003e] regulator_register+0xaf2/0x12a0\n [\u003c00000000e2f5e754\u003e] devm_regulator_register+0x57/0xb0\n [\u003c000000008b898197\u003e] rt5190a_probe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190a_regulator]\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810b617b80 (size 32):\n comm \"490-i2c-rt5190a\", pid 253, jiffies 4294859904 (age 5060.983s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 72 65 67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 2e 32 38 36 38 2d 53 regulator.2868-S\n 55 50 50 4c 59 00 ff ff 29 00 00 00 2b 00 00 00 UPPLY...)...+...\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000009da9280d\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0\n [\u003c0000000025c6a4e5\u003e] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70\n [\u003c00000000790efb69\u003e] create_regulator+0xc0/0x4e0\n [\u003c0000000005ed203a\u003e] regulator_resolve_supply+0x2d4/0x440\n [\u003c0000000045796214\u003e] regulator_register+0x10b3/0x12a0\n [\u003c00000000e2f5e754\u003e] devm_regulator_register+0x57/0xb0\n [\u003c000000008b898197\u003e] rt5190a_probe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190a_regulator]\n\nAfter calling regulator_resolve_supply(), the 'rdev-\u003esupply' is set\nby set_supply(), after this set, in the error path, the resources\nneed be released, so call regulator_put() to avoid the leaks." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0120ec32a7774b5061ced1a9a7ff833edd8b4cb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35593d60b1622834984c43add7646d4069671aa9"},{"version":"aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a03c31d08f95dca9633a552de167b9e625833a8"},{"version":"aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4c64d8abd656b9807b63178750fa91454602b86"},{"version":"aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90b713aadc1240bf2dd03d610d6c1d016a9123a2"},{"version":"aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f86b2f216636790d5922458578825e4628fb570f"},{"version":"aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba62319a42c50e6254e98b3f316464fac8e77968"},{"version":"1d58235c062309d51660fd04182d7a8ab6a48ad6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"167c3b1f9793a1fb23e75e693f078420850306d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3fc99e38fdbf6b693693f861aa55a50a74c2d202","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"96c6b5d5775637b3095ef934f871044811fd4db7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"f58ce31b05b4ca0c200a5cbe4724efe279405095","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.73","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.229"},{"version":"4.9.241","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.203","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.153","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.8.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.9.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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