CVE-2023-53397

modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()

Published: 9/18/2025 Last updated: 9/18/2025 Reserved: 9/17/2025

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.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	n/a

References (8)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ee557590bac154d324de446d1cd0444988bd511
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02dc8e8bdbe4412cfcf17ee3873e63fa5a55b957
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb0cdca5c979bc34c27602e2039562932c2591a4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0424cd8a44b5f480feb06753cdf4e1f248d148
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd872d5576cc94528f427c7264c2c438928cc6d2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cade370efe2f9e2a79ea8587506ffe2b51ac6d2b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b2e77050b91199453bf19d0517b047b7339a9e3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192