# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53802"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:58.582Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:48.668Z"
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-2023-53802"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53802.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53802"
title: "wifi: ath9k: htc_hst: free skb in ath9k_htc_rx_msg() if there is no callback function"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: htc_hst: free skb in ath9k_htc_rx_msg() if there is no callback function\n\nIt is stated that ath9k_htc_rx_msg() either frees the provided skb or\npasses its management to another callback function. However, the skb is\nnot freed in case there is no another callback function, and Syzkaller was\nable to cause a memory leak. Also minor comment fix.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."
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