CVE-2023-53657

Updated on 07 Oct 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

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.

Fixes