Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53460

wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 to before 6cc92379b80af005e1f49ef6ef790cddc58cf0daAffected
  • e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 to before 48181d285623198c33bb9698992502687b258efaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.2Affected
  • before 5.2Not affected
  • 6.3.4 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4 and laterNot affected

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