# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53745"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:19:04.133Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:52.985Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53745"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53745.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53745"
title: "um: vector: Fix memory leak in vector_config"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\num: vector: Fix memory leak in vector_config\n\nIf the return value of the uml_parse_vector_ifspec function is NULL,\nwe should call kfree(params) to prevent memory leak."
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