CVE-2023-53574

Updated on 04 Oct 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0

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.

Fixes