PT-2025-38442

CVE-2023-53423

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Published

2025-09-18

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Updated

2026-07-28

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A memory leak was identified and resolved in the create static call sections() function within the Linux kernel's objtool. The strdup() function allocates memory for key name, and the fix adds free() calls to release this memory in specific error paths, preventing the leak.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
CLSA-2026-1780052998
CLSA-2026-1782151303
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