CVE-2023-53657: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.16, before 6.1.55 (fixed in 6.1.55); from 6.2, before 6.5.5 (fixed in 6.5.5)

Published 2025-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.