CVE-2023-54131

wifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys

published December 24, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys

When removing a rt2x00 device, its associated channel surveys

are not freed, causing a memory leak observable with kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff9620f0881a00 (size 512):

comm "systemd-udevd", pid 2290, jiffies 4294906974 (age 33.768s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

70 44 12 00 00 00 00 00 92 8a 00 00 00 00 00 00 pD..............

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ab 87 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<ffffffffb0ed858b>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x130

[<ffffffffc1b0f29b>] rt2800_probe_hw+0xc2b/0x1380 [rt2800lib]

[<ffffffffc1a9496e>] rt2800usb_probe_hw+0xe/0x60 [rt2800usb]

[<ffffffffc1ae491a>] rt2x00lib_probe_dev+0x21a/0x7d0 [rt2x00lib]

[<ffffffffc1b3b83e>] rt2x00usb_probe+0x1be/0x980 [rt2x00usb]

[<ffffffffc05981e2>] usb_probe_interface+0xe2/0x310 [usbcore]

[<ffffffffb13be2d5>] really_probe+0x1a5/0x410

[<ffffffffb13be5c8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x180

[<ffffffffb13be6fe>] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90

[<ffffffffb13be972>] __driver_attach+0xd2/0x1c0

[<ffffffffb13bbc57>] bus_for_each_dev+0x77/0xd0

[<ffffffffb13bd2a2>] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210

[<ffffffffb13bfc6c>] driver_register+0x5c/0x120

[<ffffffffc0596ae8>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x150 [usbcore]

[<ffffffffb0c011c4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x220

[<ffffffffb0d6134c>] do_init_module+0x4c/0x220

Fix this by freeing the channel surveys on device removal.

Tested with a RT3070 based USB wireless adapter.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00208 · 10.4th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T13:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 13:06Z
    wifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys
    cvelistv5