CVE-2023-53422

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs Fix a memory leak that occurs when reading the fw_info file all the way, since we return NULL indicating no more data, but don't free the status tracking object.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-09-18

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866c