Upstream information

CVE-2023-53657 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1251319 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Oct 7 20:01:20 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 8 20:07:27 2025