CVE-2023-53460 (GCVE-0-2023-53460)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-01 11:42
Modified
2025-10-02 07:04
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9
Version: e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9
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