CVE-2023-53460

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc92379b80af005e1f49ef6ef790cddc58cf0da

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48181d285623198c33bb9698992502687b258efa

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2025-10-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018