mlx5e driver

  1. Kernel Patch Fix for Mellanox mlx5e CVE-2026-22996 Stability Oops

    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...
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  2. CVE-2023-53371: Linux mlx5e Driver Memory Leak Fix and Mitigation

    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...
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