CVE-2023-53657

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa529a69e92b9aff585e569d5003f7c15d8d60b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63ff5a94649837d980e3b9ef535c793ec8cb0ca7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5760a72b3060150b587eff3e879648c7470efddd

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-07

Updated: 2025-10-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017