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CVE-2023-54230 (GCVE-0-2023-54230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:57
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Title
amba: bus: fix refcount leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amba: bus: fix refcount leak commit 5de1540b7bc4 ("drivers/amba: create devices from device tree") increases the refcount of of_node, but not releases it in amba_device_release, so there is refcount leak. By using of_node_put to avoid refcount leak.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 94e398df32e850f26828690ee62f7441979583cc (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 9062ce0ccbd82fbe81cc839a512c0ad90847e01c (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 03db4fe7917bb160eeccf3968835475fa32b7e10 (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 9baf2278b3eed2c50112169121257d8a6ee0606c (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 4f1807fddd9bf175ee5e14fffc6b6106e4b297ef (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 81ff633a88be2482c163d3acd2801d501261ce6a (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 206fadb7278ceac7593dd0b945a77b9df856a674 (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < 8b60a706166de5de82314494704c2419e7657bf8 (git)
Affected: 5de1540b7bc4c23470f86add1e517be41e7fefe2 , < e312cbdc11305568554a9e18a2ea5c2492c183f3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.326 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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