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fkie_cve-2023-53422

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-18 16:15

Modified

2025-09-19 16:00

Severity ?

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs\n\nFix a memory leak that occurs when reading the fw_info\nfile all the way, since we return NULL indicating no\nmore data, but don\u0027t free the status tracking object."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-53422",
  "lastModified": "2025-09-19T16:00:27.847",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-09-18T16:15:46.010",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2023-53422 (GCVE-0-2023-53422)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-18 16:04

Modified

2025-09-18 16:04

Severity ?

Summary

References

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

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Linux

Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Version: 36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da

Linux

Version: 5.8

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