CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53397
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.1 < 4.14.322)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 5.4.251)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.188)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.121)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02dc8e8bdbe4412cfcf17ee3873e63fa5a55b957 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0424cd8a44b5f480feb06753cdf4e1f248d148 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ee557590bac154d324de446d1cd0444988bd511 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b2e77050b91199453bf19d0517b047b7339a9e3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cade370efe2f9e2a79ea8587506ffe2b51ac6d2b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb0cdca5c979bc34c27602e2039562932c2591a4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd872d5576cc94528f427c7264c2c438928cc6d2 Patch