CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53423

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.10.173) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.100) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.18) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References