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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53491"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:43.101Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:28.874Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53491"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53491.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53491"
title: "start_kernel: Add __no_stack_protector function attribute"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstart_kernel: Add __no_stack_protector function attribute\n\nBack during the discussion of\ncommit a9a3ed1eff36 (\"x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try\")\nwe discussed the need for a function attribute to control the omission\nof stack protectors on a per-function basis; at the time Clang had\nsupport for no_stack_protector but GCC did not. This was fixed in\ngcc-11. Now that the function attribute is available, let's start using\nit.\n\nCallers of boot_init_stack_canary need to use this function attribute\nunless they're compiled with -fno-stack-protector, otherwise the canary\nstored in the stack slot of the caller will differ upon the call to\nboot_init_stack_canary. This will lead to a call to __stack_chk_fail()\nthen panic."
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