# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53529"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:46:14.358Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:46:44.263Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53529"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53529.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53529"
title: "wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb\n\nKmemleak shows the following leak arising from routine in the usb\nprobe routine:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff895cb29bba00 (size 512):\n  comm \"(udev-worker)\", pid 534, jiffies 4294903932 (age 102751.088s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    77 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 02 2f 2d 2b 30 00 00 00  w000...../-+0...\n    02 00 2a 28 00 00 00 00 ff 55 ff ff ff 00 00 00  ..*(.....U......\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffff9265fa36\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90\n    [\u003cffffffffc17eec41\u003e] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb]\n    [\u003cffffffffc03e19fd\u003e] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore]\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4f2fe\u003e] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4f5b8\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4f6bf\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4f8df\u003e] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4d350\u003e] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0\n    [\u003cffffffff92b4e51e\u003e] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210\n    [\u003cffffffff92b50935\u003e] driver_register+0x55/0xf0\n    [\u003cffffffffc03e0708\u003e] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore]\n    [\u003cffffffff92401153\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210\n    [\u003cffffffff9254f42a\u003e] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200\n    [\u003cffffffff92551d1c\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120\n    [\u003cffffffff92ee6626\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80\n    [\u003cffffffff9300006a\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe leak was verified to be real by unloading the driver, which resulted\nin a dangling pointer to the allocation.\n\nThe allocated memory is freed in rtw_usb_intf_deinit()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d"},{"version":"e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59a3a312009723e3e5082899655fdcc420e2b47a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"6.3.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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