A stability bug in the Linux kernel’s Mellanox mlx5e Ethernet driver — tracked as CVE-2026-22996 — has been fixed upstream; the defect could cause a kernel oops (NULL-pointer dereference) during devlink/devlink eswitch/profile operations, and operators running mlx5-based NICs should plan to...
A subtle but important memory‑management bug in the Linux kernel’s Mellanox mlx5e network driver — tracked as CVE‑2023‑53371 — was patched upstream after maintainers discovered an error path that failed to free a dynamically allocated object, permitting a local attacker or misbehaving process to...