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CVE-2023-53657 (GCVE-0-2023-53657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:49

Title

ice: Don't tx before switchdev is fully configured

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Don't tx before switchdev is fully configured There is possibility that ice_eswitch_port_start_xmit might be called while some resources are still not allocated which might cause NULL pointer dereference. Fix this by checking if switchdev configuration was finished.

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 mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5760a72b3060150b5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63ff5a94649837d98…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa529a69e92b9aff…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 5760a72b3060150b587eff3e879648c7470efddd (git) Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 63ff5a94649837d980e3b9ef535c793ec8cb0ca7 (git) Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 7aa529a69e92b9aff585e569d5003f7c15d8d60b (git)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.55 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.5 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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