linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53529: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88

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Message-ID: <2025100136-CVE-2023-53529-db9a@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:46:21 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53529: wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb

Kmemleak shows the following leak arising from routine in the usb
probe routine:

unreferenced object 0xffff895cb29bba00 (size 512):
  comm "(udev-worker)", pid 534, jiffies 4294903932 (age 102751.088s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    77 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 02 2f 2d 2b 30 00 00 00  w000...../-+0...
    02 00 2a 28 00 00 00 00 ff 55 ff ff ff 00 00 00  ..*(.....U......
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff9265fa36>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x90
    [<ffffffffc17eec41>] rtw_usb_probe+0x2f1/0x680 [rtw_usb]
    [<ffffffffc03e19fd>] usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x2e0 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffff92b4f2fe>] really_probe+0x18e/0x3d0
    [<ffffffff92b4f5b8>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
    [<ffffffff92b4f6bf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
    [<ffffffff92b4f8df>] __driver_attach+0xbf/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff92b4d350>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
    [<ffffffff92b4e51e>] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210
    [<ffffffff92b50935>] driver_register+0x55/0xf0
    [<ffffffffc03e0708>] usb_register_driver+0x88/0x140 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffff92401153>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x210
    [<ffffffff9254f42a>] do_init_module+0x4a/0x200
    [<ffffffff92551d1c>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120
    [<ffffffff92ee6626>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80
    [<ffffffff9300006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The leak was verified to be real by unloading the driver, which resulted
in a dangling pointer to the allocation.

The allocated memory is freed in rtw_usb_intf_deinit().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53529 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.3.4 with commit 5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d
	Fixed in 6.4 with commit 59a3a312009723e3e5082899655fdcc420e2b47a

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53529
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bba1ad561a8b5bb14704d8f511cf10466336e3d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59a3a312009723e3e5082899655fdcc420e2b47a