Bug 2396527 (CVE-2023-53422) - CVE-2023-53422 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs
Summary: CVE-2023-53422 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: fw: fix memory leak in debugfs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53422
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-18 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-19 14:11 UTC (History)
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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
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