CVE-2023-53397

Updated on 18 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)

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.

Fixes