CVE-2023-53397 (GCVE-0-2023-53397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 13:33 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:03
VLAI?
Title
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < 7ee557590bac154d324de446d1cd0444988bd511 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < 02dc8e8bdbe4412cfcf17ee3873e63fa5a55b957 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < cb0cdca5c979bc34c27602e2039562932c2591a4 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < 5e0424cd8a44b5f480feb06753cdf4e1f248d148 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < dd872d5576cc94528f427c7264c2c438928cc6d2 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < cade370efe2f9e2a79ea8587506ffe2b51ac6d2b (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < 8b2e77050b91199453bf19d0517b047b7339a9e3 (git)
Affected: 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 , < 3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.322 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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