CVE-2023-53058 (GCVE-0-2023-53058)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
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Title
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code The error handling dereferences "vport". There is nothing we can do if it is an error pointer except returning the error code.
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Linux Linux Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 5eadc80328298ef7beaaf0cd96791667d3b485ca (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 388188fb58bef9e7f3ca4f8970f03d493b66909f (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < c4c977935b2fc60084b3735737d17a06e7ba1bd0 (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 1a9853a7437a22fd849347008fb3c85087906b56 (git)
Affected: 133dcfc577eaec6538db4ebd8b9205b361f59018 , < 640fcdbcf27fc62de9223f958ceb4e897a00e791 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.177 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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