CVE-2023-53423 (GCVE-0-2023-53423)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-18 16:04
Modified
2025-09-18 16:04
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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
Impacted products
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