CVE-2023-53422

Updated on 18 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

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.

Fixes