CVE-2023-53657 PUBLISHED

ice: Don't tx before switchdev is fully configured

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 07.10.2025 Published: 07.10.2025 Updated: 07.10.2025

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 5760a72b3060150b587eff3e879648c7470efddd (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 63ff5a94649837d980e3b9ef535c793ec8cb0ca7 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7aa529a69e92b9aff585e569d5003f7c15d8d60b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 6.1.55 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.5.5 to 6.5.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6 to * (incl.)

References