Bug 2363697 (CVE-2023-53058)

Summary: CVE-2023-53058 kernel: net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:02:15 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 06:07:31 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050208-CVE-2023-53058-a2e2@gregkh/T