CVE-2023-54146

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer<br /> <br /> After<br /> <br /> b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer"),<br /> <br /> freeing image-&gt;elf_headers in the error path of crash_load_segments()<br /> is not needed because kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() will take<br /> care of that later. And not clearing it could result in a double-free.<br /> <br /> Drop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of<br /> crash_load_segments().

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