Local service interruption via device-node reference leak
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Resource leak in the TI DMA crossbar driver in Linux 4.5 through 5.18.10 allows local users to interrupt service. The ti_dra7_xbar_route_allocate function retains the incremented reference returned by of_parse_phandle instead of releasing it with of_node_put. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and a TI DRA7 DMA crossbar configuration; repeated route allocations exhaust kernel resources and interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Resource leak in the TI DMA crossbar driver in Linux 4.5 through 5.18.10 allows local users to interrupt service. The ti_dra7_xbar_route_allocate function retains the incremented reference returned by of_parse_phandle instead of releasing it with of_node_put. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and a TI DRA7 DMA crossbar configuration; repeated route allocations exhaust kernel resources and interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49652
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.5
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <37147e22cd8dfc0412495cb361708836157a4486
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <3bd66010398871807c1cebacee07d60ded1b1402
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <452b9dfd7aca96befce22634fadb111737f22bbe
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <61b4ef19c346dc21ab1d4f39f5c412e3037b2bdc
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <b31ab132561c7f1b6459039152b8d09e44eb3565
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <b5a817f8d62e9e13280928f3756e54854ae4962e
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <c132fe78ad7b4ce8b5d49a501a15c29d08eeb23a
- Affected versionversion=ec9bfa1e1a796ef7acc2e55917c9b8be5a79e70e <cb9813d7eae917acd34436160a278b8b5d48ca53
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