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CVE record · CVE-2023-53397

modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0015 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Sept 2025, 13:33 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before 7ee557590bac154d324de446d1cd0444988bd511 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before 02dc8e8bdbe4412cfcf17ee3873e63fa5a55b957 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before cb0cdca5c979bc34c27602e2039562932c2591a4 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before 5e0424cd8a44b5f480feb06753cdf4e1f248d148 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before dd872d5576cc94528f427c7264c2c438928cc6d2 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before cade370efe2f9e2a79ea8587506ffe2b51ac6d2b git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before 8b2e77050b91199453bf19d0517b047b7339a9e3 git
  • affected 52dc0595d540155436d91811f929bdc8afd6a2a1 to before 3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.1
  • unaffected before 4.1 semver
  • unaffected 4.14.322 to 4.14.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.4.251 to 5.4.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.10.188 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.121 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.39 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.3.13 to 6.3.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.4.4 to 6.4.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.5 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-53397
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-193
Tags
Published
18 Sept 2025
Updated
11 May 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0015, the 4th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Sept 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.