Bug 2396527 (CVE-2023-53422)

Summary: CVE-2023-53422 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:03:24 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-18 19:44:47 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091856-CVE-2023-53422-8cca@gregkh/T