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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:49
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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.
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Linux Linux Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 5760a72b3060150b587eff3e879648c7470efddd (git)
Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 63ff5a94649837d980e3b9ef535c793ec8cb0ca7 (git)
Affected: f5396b8a663f7a78ee5b75a47ee524b40795b265 , < 7aa529a69e92b9aff585e569d5003f7c15d8d60b (git)
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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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