CVE-2023-53574: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.2, before 6.5.5 (fixed in 6.5.5)

Published 2025-10-04. Last modified 2026-10-03.