CVE-2023-53422

wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs

Medium · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-09-18T16:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 16:04Z
    wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs
    cvelistv5