CVE-2023-53423

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53423
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53423.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53423
Downstream
Published
2025-09-18T16:04:05.957Z
Modified
2026-03-11T05:11:30.604342Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()
Details

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

objtool: Fix memory leak in createstaticcall_sections()

strdup() allocates memory for key_name. We need to release the memory in the following error paths. Add free() to avoid memory leak.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53423.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
1e7e47883830aae5e8246a22ca2fc6883c61acdf
Fixed
a1368eaea058e451d20ea99ca27e72d9df0d16dd
Fixed
3a75866a5ceff5d4fdd5471e06c4c4d03e0298b3
Fixed
a8f63d747bf7c983882a5ea7456a5f84ad3acad5
Fixed
d131718d9c45d559951f57c4b88209ca407433c4
Fixed
3da73f102309fe29150e5c35acd20dd82063ff67

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53423.json"