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FKIE_CVE-2023-53422

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-18 16:15 - Updated: 2026-01-14 20:16

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866c	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2023-53422 (GCVE-0-2023-53422)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:13

Title

wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs

Summary

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e302e9ca14a86a80e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f64bc8e001f2165…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe17124282da055cb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b830ba20b43be52ea…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90d2f4a018fe8cf…

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Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < 89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2b (git)
Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3 (git)
Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < 37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4 (git)
Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866c (git)
Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820 (git)
Affected: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da , < 3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-53422

CVE-2023-53422 (GCVE-0-2023-53422)

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