CVE-2023-53423 (GCVE-0-2023-53423)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:13
VLAI?
Title
objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections() strdup() allocates memory for key_name. We need to release the memory in the following error paths. Add free() to avoid memory leak.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < a1368eaea058e451d20ea99ca27e72d9df0d16dd (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < 3a75866a5ceff5d4fdd5471e06c4c4d03e0298b3 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < a8f63d747bf7c983882a5ea7456a5f84ad3acad5 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < d131718d9c45d559951f57c4b88209ca407433c4 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < 3da73f102309fe29150e5c35acd20dd82063ff67 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.100 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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