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FKIE_CVE-2023-53423

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-18 16:15 - Updated: 2025-09-19 16:00

Severity ?

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a75866a5ceff5d4fdd5471e06c4c4d03e0298b3
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3da73f102309fe29150e5c35acd20dd82063ff67
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1368eaea058e451d20ea99ca27e72d9df0d16dd
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f63d747bf7c983882a5ea7456a5f84ad3acad5
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d131718d9c45d559951f57c4b88209ca407433c4

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nobjtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()\n\nstrdup() allocates memory for key_name. We need to release the memory in\nthe following error paths. Add free() to avoid memory leak."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-53423",
  "lastModified": "2025-09-19T16:00:27.847",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-09-18T16:15:46.130",
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CVE-2023-53423 (GCVE-0-2023-53423)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2025-09-18 16:04

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1368eaea058e451d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a75866a5ceff5d4f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f63d747bf7c9838…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d131718d9c45d5599…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3da73f102309fe291…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < a1368eaea058e451d20ea99ca27e72d9df0d16dd (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < 3a75866a5ceff5d4fdd5471e06c4c4d03e0298b3 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < a8f63d747bf7c983882a5ea7456a5f84ad3acad5 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < d131718d9c45d559951f57c4b88209ca407433c4 (git)
Affected: 1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf , < 3da73f102309fe29150e5c35acd20dd82063ff67 (git)

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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FKIE_CVE-2023-53423

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

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