CVE-2023-53657

kernel: ice: Don't tx before switchdev is fully configured

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 7, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition