CVE-2023-53460

wifi: rtw88: fix memory leak in rtw_usb_probe()

Published: 10/1/2025 Last updated: 10/2/2025 Reserved: 10/1/2025

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.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	<= 1.0.0

References (2)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc92379b80af005e1f49ef6ef790cddc58cf0da
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48181d285623198c33bb9698992502687b258efa