CVE-2023-53574
wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Linux
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading Fix possible crash and memory leak on driver unload by deleting TX purge timer and freeing C2H queue in 'rtw_core_deinit()', shrink critical section in the latter by freeing COEX queue out of TX report lock scope.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 – < 60ee0f6fea7ba5681ebf7d70b8ebe592227188a4
- affected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 – < 4128b00a6006870e117ab1841e58f369e9284ecb
- affected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 – < 634fcbcaa4062db39aeb5ac6ed1bc1feb8dd5216
- affected 5.2
- unaffected < 5.2
- unaffected 6.1.189 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.5.5 – ≤ 6.5.*
- unaffected 6.6 – ≤ *
References (3)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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