CVE-2023-53460 (GCVE-0-2023-53460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:45
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Title
wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe() drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c:876 rtw_usb_probe() warn: 'hw' from ieee80211_alloc_hw() not released on lines: 811 Fix this by modifying return to a goto statement.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < 6cc92379b80af005e1f49ef6ef790cddc58cf0da (git)
Affected: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 , < 48181d285623198c33bb9698992502687b258efa (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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