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CVE-2023-53529
published 2025-10-01

CVE-2023-53529: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb Kmemleak shows the following leak arising from…

PriorityP418medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.12%
2.0th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb Kmemleak shows the following leak arising from routine in the usb probe routine: unreferenced object 0xffff895cb29bba00 (size 512): comm "(udev-worker)", pid 534, jiffies 4294903932 (age 102751.088s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 77 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 02 2f 2d 2b 30 00 00 00 w000...../-+0... 02 00 2a 28 00 00 00 00 ff 55 ff ff ff 00 00 00 ..*(.....U...... backtrace: [] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90 [] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb] [] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore] [] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0 [] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160 [] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0 [] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210 [] driver_register+0x55/0xf0 [] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore] [] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210 [] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200 [] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120 [] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 The leak was verified to be real by unloading the driver, which resulted in a dangling pointer to the allocation. The allocated memory is freed in rtw_usb_intf_deinit().

Affected

7 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.3.7-1 (forky)linux 6.3.7-1 (forky)
linuxlinux——
linuxlinux>= e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 < 5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d
linuxlinux>= e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 < 59a3a312009723e3e5082899655fdcc420e2b47a59a3a312009723e3e5082899655fdcc420e2b47a
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.3.7-16.3.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.3.7-16.3.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.2 < 6.3.46.3.4

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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