CVE-2023-53529 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

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+0x…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.2 — 6.3.4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.3.7-1+1
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxe3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 — 5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d+2
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.3.7-1 (forky)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-77vw-m47q-m4gp: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb Kmemleak shows the following leak aris↗2025-10-01
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OSV
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 arisin↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2023-53529: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88...↗2023
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