CVE-2023-53808 (GCVE-0-2023-53808)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()
Always free the zeroed page on return from 'mwifiex_histogram_read()'.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < d3b53ac2b60283f84bcc650aaa8af98500f37b56
(git)
Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 7be90670b967d11f53a9d45bc88fa8ac9daf9709 (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 8f717752f94efae84853e17f2589665c330a0cf5 (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 0c4240d23db525208fd40dd6371ca3254fa1b93d (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 308eb3a609ac39ca9c3e466b35e8825007c8d826 (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 84081b4baafb49211193c6a056d5aee9c0e6ab8e (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 5d66b32a6ecf2e2e1a9523eaa4f8b314832fe06c (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < f76e1da838377777557d78dfeb6d8c532f7118be (git) Affected: cbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 , < 9c8fd72a5c2a031cbc680a2990107ecd958ffcdb (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.0 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.326 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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