CVE-2023-53058 (GCVE-0-2023-53058)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
VLAI
Title
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code The error handling dereferences "vport". There is nothing we can do if it is an error pointer except returning the error code.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 5eadc80328298ef7beaaf0cd96791667d3b485ca (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 388188fb58bef9e7f3ca4f8970f03d493b66909f (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < c4c977935b2fc60084b3735737d17a06e7ba1bd0 (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 1a9853a7437a22fd849347008fb3c85087906b56 (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 640fcdbcf27fc62de9223f958ceb4e897a00e791 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.177 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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