CVE-2023-53657 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.78.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-14069904
  • published20 Nov 2025
  • disclosed19 Nov 2025

Introduced: 19 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms to version 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1