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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53507" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:57.310Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:46:18.867Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53507" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53507.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53507" title: "net/mlx5: Unregister devlink params in case interface is down" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Unregister devlink params in case interface is down\n\nCurrently, in case an interface is down, mlx5 driver doesn't\nunregister its devlink params, which leads to this WARN[1].\nFix it by unregistering devlink params in that case as well.\n\n[1]\n[ 295.244769 ] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 1 at net/core/devlink.c:9042 devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc\n[ 295.488379 ] CPU: 15 PID: 1 Comm: shutdown Tainted: G S OE 5.15.0-1017.19.3.g0677e61-bluefield #g0677e61\n[ 295.509330 ] Hardware name: https://www.mellanox.com BlueField SoC/BlueField SoC, BIOS 4.2.0.12761 Jun 6 2023\n[ 295.543096 ] pc : devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc\n[ 295.551104 ] lr : mlx5_devlink_free+0x18/0x2c [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.561816 ] sp : ffff80000809b850\n[ 295.711155 ] Call trace:\n[ 295.716030 ] devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc\n[ 295.723346 ] mlx5_devlink_free+0x18/0x2c [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.733351 ] mlx5_sf_dev_remove+0x98/0xb0 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.743534 ] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x2c/0x50\n[ 295.751893 ] __device_release_driver+0x19c/0x280\n[ 295.761120 ] device_release_driver+0x34/0x50\n[ 295.769649 ] bus_remove_device+0xdc/0x170\n[ 295.777656 ] device_del+0x17c/0x3a4\n[ 295.784620 ] mlx5_sf_dev_remove+0x28/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.794800 ] mlx5_sf_dev_table_destroy+0x98/0x110 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.806375 ] mlx5_unload+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.815339 ] mlx5_unload_one+0x70/0xe4 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.824998 ] shutdown+0xb0/0xd8 [mlx5_core]\n[ 295.833439 ] pci_device_shutdown+0x3c/0xa0\n[ 295.841651 ] device_shutdown+0x170/0x340\n[ 295.849486 ] __do_sys_reboot+0x1f4/0x2a0\n[ 295.857322 ] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x2c/0x40\n[ 295.865329 ] invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100\n[ 295.872817 ] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x54/0x184\n[ 295.882392 ] do_el0_svc+0x30/0xac\n[ 295.889008 ] el0_svc+0x48/0x160\n[ 295.895278 ] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130\n[ 295.903807 ] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8\n[ 295.911120 ] ---[ end trace 4f1d2381d00d9dce ]---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe578cbb2f053f465e19d2671a523dcd01953888","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"471f59b3455314f0cafacf3096453727876355a9"},{"version":"fe578cbb2f053f465e19d2671a523dcd01953888","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53d737dfd3d7b023fa9fa445ea3f3db0ac9da402"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.4.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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