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FKIE_CVE-2023-54131

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-24 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:46

Severity

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0354bce76ed1d775904acdb4cc0bf88c5b9b5b9f
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/494064ffd60d044c097d514917c40913d1affbca
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bea3f8aa999318bdffa2d17753e492f76904f0ce
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbef9a83c51dfcb07f77cfa6ac26f53a1ea86f49
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb77c0c0a17c53d83b5fe8e46490fb0a7ed9e6af

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys\n\nWhen removing a rt2x00 device, its associated channel surveys\nare not freed, causing a memory leak observable with kmemleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff9620f0881a00 (size 512):\n  comm \"systemd-udevd\", pid 2290, jiffies 4294906974 (age 33.768s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    70 44 12 00 00 00 00 00 92 8a 00 00 00 00 00 00  pD..............\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ab 87 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffffb0ed858b\u003e] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x130\n    [\u003cffffffffc1b0f29b\u003e] rt2800_probe_hw+0xc2b/0x1380 [rt2800lib]\n    [\u003cffffffffc1a9496e\u003e] rt2800usb_probe_hw+0xe/0x60 [rt2800usb]\n    [\u003cffffffffc1ae491a\u003e] rt2x00lib_probe_dev+0x21a/0x7d0 [rt2x00lib]\n    [\u003cffffffffc1b3b83e\u003e] rt2x00usb_probe+0x1be/0x980 [rt2x00usb]\n    [\u003cffffffffc05981e2\u003e] usb_probe_interface+0xe2/0x310 [usbcore]\n    [\u003cffffffffb13be2d5\u003e] really_probe+0x1a5/0x410\n    [\u003cffffffffb13be5c8\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x180\n    [\u003cffffffffb13be6fe\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90\n    [\u003cffffffffb13be972\u003e] __driver_attach+0xd2/0x1c0\n    [\u003cffffffffb13bbc57\u003e] bus_for_each_dev+0x77/0xd0\n    [\u003cffffffffb13bd2a2\u003e] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210\n    [\u003cffffffffb13bfc6c\u003e] driver_register+0x5c/0x120\n    [\u003cffffffffc0596ae8\u003e] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x150 [usbcore]\n    [\u003cffffffffb0c011c4\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x220\n    [\u003cffffffffb0d6134c\u003e] do_init_module+0x4c/0x220\n\nFix this by freeing the channel surveys on device removal.\n\nTested with a RT3070 based USB wireless adapter."
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T06:46:51.513",
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CVE-2023-54131 (GCVE-0-2023-54131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:56

Title

wifi: rt2x00: Fix memory leak when handling surveys

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb77c0c0a17c53d83…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bea3f8aa999318bdf…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/494064ffd60d044c0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0354bce76ed1d7759…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbef9a83c51dfcb07…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5447626910f5b8d964761ed4fa4feaf1a3ac47d0 , < eb77c0c0a17c53d83b5fe8e46490fb0a7ed9e6af (git) Affected: 5447626910f5b8d964761ed4fa4feaf1a3ac47d0 , < bea3f8aa999318bdffa2d17753e492f76904f0ce (git) Affected: 5447626910f5b8d964761ed4fa4feaf1a3ac47d0 , < 494064ffd60d044c097d514917c40913d1affbca (git) Affected: 5447626910f5b8d964761ed4fa4feaf1a3ac47d0 , < 0354bce76ed1d775904acdb4cc0bf88c5b9b5b9f (git) Affected: 5447626910f5b8d964761ed4fa4feaf1a3ac47d0 , < cbef9a83c51dfcb07f77cfa6ac26f53a1ea86f49 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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