CVE-2023-25012

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

The Linux kernel through 6.1.9 has a Use-After-Free in bigben_remove in drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c via a crafted USB device because the LED controllers remain registered for too long.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 6.1.9

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/02/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/05/1
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207560
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=27d2a2fd844ec7da70d19fabb482304fd1e0595b
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76ca8da989c7d97a7f76c75d475fe95a584439d7
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9fefb6201c4f8dd9f58c581b2a66e5cde2895ea2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230125-hid-unregister-leds-v1-1-9a5192dcef16%40diag.uniroma1.it/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/53
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/02/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/05/1
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207560

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