# 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-2023-54146"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:06:58.904Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:33:14.821Z"
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-2023-54146"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54146.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54146"
title: "x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer\n\nAfter\n\n  b3e34a47f989 (\"x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer\"),\n\nfreeing image-\u003eelf_headers in the error path of crash_load_segments()\nis not needed because kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() will take\ncare of that later. And not clearing it could result in a double-free.\n\nDrop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of\ncrash_load_segments()."
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