CVE-2023-53460
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53460
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53460.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53460
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-10-01T11:42:31.620Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-02T09:44:16.398591Z
- Summary
- wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe()
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtwusbprobe()
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c:876 rtwusbprobe() warn: 'hw' from ieee80211allochw() not released on lines: 811
Fix this by modifying return to a goto statement.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53460.json", "cna_assigner": "Linux" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48181d285623198c33bb9698992502687b258efa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc92379b80af005e1f49ef6ef790cddc58cf0da
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53460.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53460
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git