CVE-2023-53808 — Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource in Linux

CWE-771 — Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource6 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUM
No vector
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 9

Description

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()'.

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Linuxlinux/linux_kernel4.0.0 — 4.14.326+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.197-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxcbf6e05527a7654ac1c4f4787dfd7a182fcc0c73 — d3b53ac2b60283f84bcc650aaa8af98500f37b56+9
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.55-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-v6fm-8984-7m43: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read() Always free the zeroe↗2025-12-09
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OSV
wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()↗2025-12-09
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OSV
CVE-2023-53808: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read() Always free the zeroed↗2025-12-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()↗2025-12-09
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Debian
CVE-2023-53808: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifi...↗2023
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