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GHSA-3CQG-R9W7-GJFG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-07 18:31 – Updated: 2026-02-03 21:31

Details

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

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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

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

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
Linux	Linux	Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 5760a72b3060150b587eff3e879648c7470efddd (git) Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 63ff5a94649837d980e3b9ef535c793ec8cb0ca7 (git) Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 7aa529a69e92b9aff585e569d5003f7c15d8d60b (git)
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)

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GHSA-3CQG-R9W7-GJFG

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

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