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FKIE_CVE-2023-53808

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-09 01:16 - Updated: 2025-12-09 18:37

Severity ?

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()'.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4240d23db525208fd40dd6371ca3254fa1b93d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/308eb3a609ac39ca9c3e466b35e8825007c8d826
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d66b32a6ecf2e2e1a9523eaa4f8b314832fe06c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7be90670b967d11f53a9d45bc88fa8ac9daf9709
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84081b4baafb49211193c6a056d5aee9c0e6ab8e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f717752f94efae84853e17f2589665c330a0cf5
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8fd72a5c2a031cbc680a2990107ecd958ffcdb
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b53ac2b60283f84bcc650aaa8af98500f37b56
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76e1da838377777557d78dfeb6d8c532f7118be

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()\n\nAlways free the zeroed page on return from \u0027mwifiex_histogram_read()\u0027."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-53808",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-09T18:37:13.640",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-09T01:16:52.807",
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}

CVE-2023-53808 (GCVE-0-2023-53808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:01 – Updated: 2025-12-09 00:01

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

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b53ac2b60283f84…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7be90670b967d11f5…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f717752f94efae84…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4240d23db525208…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/308eb3a609ac39ca9…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84081b4baafb49211…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d66b32a6ecf2e2e1…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76e1da8383777775…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8fd72a5c2a031cb…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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)

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)

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CVE-2023-53808 (GCVE-0-2023-53808)

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