CVE-2023-53422

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53422
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53422.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53422
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-18T16:04:05.224Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:09.280879Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53422.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
36dfe9ac6e8b8fc2e25733d003a867a40db791da
Fixed
89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2b
Fixed
e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3
Fixed
37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4
Fixed
fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866c
Fixed
b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820
Fixed
3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53422.json"