CVE-2023-52576

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El c\u00f3digo que llama a ima_free_kexec_buffer() se ejecuta mucho despu\u00e9s de que el asignador de memblock ya se haya eliminado, lo que podr\u00eda provocar un \u00daselo despu\u00e9s de forma gratuita en memblock_isolate_range(). Con KASAN o KFENCE, este Use After Free resultar\u00e1 en un ERROR de la tarea inactiva y un posterior p\u00e1nico en el kernel. 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