CVE-2023-53423

Updated on 18 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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.