CVE-2023-53529

wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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:

[<ffffffff9265fa36>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90

[<ffffffffc17eec41>] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb]

[<ffffffffc03e19fd>] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore]

[<ffffffff92b4f2fe>] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0

[<ffffffff92b4f5b8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160

[<ffffffff92b4f6bf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90

[<ffffffff92b4f8df>] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0

[<ffffffff92b4d350>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0

[<ffffffff92b4e51e>] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210

[<ffffffff92b50935>] driver_register+0x55/0xf0

[<ffffffffc03e0708>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore]

[<ffffffff92401153>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210

[<ffffffff9254f42a>] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200

[<ffffffff92551d1c>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120

[<ffffffff92ee6626>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80

[<ffffffff9300006a>] 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().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00130 · 2.4th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:46Z
    wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb
    cvelistv5