CVE-2023-53574CWE-401

CVE-2023-53574

Medium · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading

Fix possible crash and memory leak on driver unload by deleting

TX purge timer and freeing C2H queue in 'rtw_core_deinit()',

shrink critical section in the latter by freeing COEX queue

out of TX report lock scope.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00143 · 3.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.2, < 6.5.56.5.5
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:17Z
    wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading
    cvelistv5