CVE-2023-53808 json
wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()
published 2025-12-09 11 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-60098
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
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()'.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3, 6.6
- linux Debian 12 6.1.55-1
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.5.3-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53808
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-169.187
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-94.104
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1116.126
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1053.58
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1120.129
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1051.59
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1050.55
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1063.68
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53808
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b53ac2b60283f84bcc650aaa8af98500f37b56 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7be90670b967d11f53a9d45bc88fa8ac9daf9709 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f717752f94efae84853e17f2589665c330a0cf5 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4240d23db525208fd40dd6371ca3254fa1b93d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/308eb3a609ac39ca9c3e466b35e8825007c8d826 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84081b4baafb49211193c6a056d5aee9c0e6ab8e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d66b32a6ecf2e2e1a9523eaa4f8b314832fe06c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76e1da838377777557d78dfeb6d8c532f7118be commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c8fd72a5c2a031cbc680a2990107ecd958ffcdb commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2023-53808 updated cvss 6.1
kernel: wifi: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_histogram_read()
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 moreaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d3b53ac2b60283f84bcc650aaa8af98500f37b56
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7be90670b967d11f53a9d45bc88fa8ac9daf9709
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8f717752f94efae84853e17f2589665c330a0cf5
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/0c4240d23db525208fd40dd6371ca3254fa1b93d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/308eb3a609ac39ca9c3e466b35e8825007c8d826
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/84081b4baafb49211193c6a056d5aee9c0e6ab8e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5d66b32a6ecf2e2e1a9523eaa4f8b314832fe06c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f76e1da838377777557d78dfeb6d8c532f7118be
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9c8fd72a5c2a031cbc680a2990107ecd958ffcdb
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2023-53808
- NVD CVE-2023-53808
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