CVE-2023-54230

Description

A reference count leak was found in the ARM AMBA bus driver. When AMBA devices are created from device tree, the of_node reference count is incremented but never decremented in amba_device_release(), causing gradual memory leaks.

Statement

This primarily affects ARM/ARM64 systems using AMBA peripherals. The leak is small per device and accumulates slowly over device add/remove cycles. Normal system operation without frequent device changes is minimally impacted.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

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Base Score3.3N/AN/A
Attack VectorLocalN/AN/A
Attack ComplexityLowN/AN/A
Privileges RequiredLowN/AN/A
User InteractionNoneN/AN/A
ScopeUnchangedN/AN/A
ConfidentialityNoneN/AN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneN/AN/A
Availability ImpactLowN/AN/A

Vector

Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-911

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)

An adversary that can cause a resource counter to become inaccurate may be able to create situations where resources are not accounted for and not released, thus causing resources to become scarce for future needs.

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

An adversary that can cause a resource counter to become inaccurate may be able to force an error that causes the product to crash or exit out of its current operation.

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