CVE-2023-54275 (GCVE-0-2023-54275)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:16 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:16
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Title
wifi: ath11k: Fix memory leak in ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: Fix memory leak in ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup crypto_alloc_shash() allocates resources, which should be released by crypto_free_shash(). When ath11k_peer_find() fails, there has memory leak. Add missing crypto_free_shash() to fix this.
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Linux Linux Affected: 243874c64c8137bc90455200a7735da72836ecab , < 137963e3b95776f1d57c62f249a93fe47e019a22 (git)
Affected: 243874c64c8137bc90455200a7735da72836ecab , < 53c8a256e5d3f31d80186de03a3d2a7f747b2aa0 (git)
Affected: 243874c64c8137bc90455200a7735da72836ecab , < e596b36e15a7158b0bb2d55077b6b381ee41020c (git)
Affected: 243874c64c8137bc90455200a7735da72836ecab , < 64a78ec4f4579798d8e885aca9bdd707bca6b16b (git)
Affected: 243874c64c8137bc90455200a7735da72836ecab , < ed3f83b3459a67a3ab9d806490ac304b567b1c2d (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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