FKIE_CVE-2023-53574

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-04 16:15 - Updated: 2026-02-06 15:10
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4128b00a6006870e117ab1841e58f369e9284ecbPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/634fcbcaa4062db39aeb5ac6ed1bc1feb8dd5216Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
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