Bug 2396529 (CVE-2023-53423) - CVE-2023-53423 kernel: objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()
Summary: CVE-2023-53423 kernel: objtool: Fix memory leak in create_static_call_sections()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53423
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-18 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 11:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:03:34 UTC
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.


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