Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026

wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs

CVE-2023-53422

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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.

Affected products

Linux/iwlwifillm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 5.8

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/37f64bc8e001f216566d17ef9fd5608c762ebcd4mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90d2f4a018fe8cfd65068bc6350b6222be4852mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/89496d6cff297c88fe0286a440c380ceb172da2bmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/b830ba20b43be52eae7d4087b61a0079dec56820mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e302e9ca14a86a80eadfb24a34d8675aadaf3ef3mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe17124282da055cb2e53f0131521459b5c7866cmitre

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