CVE-2023-53422

medium

Description

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

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-18

Updated: 2026-01-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024