Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53460

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.

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy3 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 5.2
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.2,<6.3.4
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 5.2.0, < 6.3.4

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