CVE-2023-53466 (GCVE-0-2023-53466)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:45
VLAI
Title
wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix memory leak in mt7915_mcu_exit
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix memory leak in mt7915_mcu_exit Always purge mcu skb queues in mt7915_mcu_exit routine even if mt7915_firmware_state fails.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 4cbb876153b63fe248200f734069c6881cf97722 (git)
Affected: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 3095fe1e1d3198e62a3c7116c4cf7c734871475f (git)
Affected: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 49bd78282e79ad177d14f37f4049f0605bf92dad (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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