CVE-2023-53602

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53602
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53602.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53602
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-04T15:44:13.155Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:46:06.425265Z
Summary
wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats
Details

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

wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats

Memory allocated for firmware pdev, vdev and beacon statistics are not released during rmmod.

Fix it by calling ath11kfwstats_free() function before hardware unregister.

While at it, avoid calling ath11kfwstats_free() while processing the firmware stats received in the WMI event because the local list is getting spliced and reinitialised and hence there are no elements in the list after splicing.

Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53602.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d
Fixed
86f9330a49d1464849482298dd34d361859183eb
Fixed
55248d36beb79d3a61c9fb3122dc377fff523c89
Fixed
6aafa1c2d3e3fea2ebe84c018003f2a91722e607

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53602.json"