CVE-2023-25012 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00034.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25012
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/53
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25012

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:05:05.248Z

Reserved: 2023-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-25012

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:11:43.325Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-02T00:15:09.130

Modified: 2025-05-05T16:15:30.593

Link: CVE-2023-25012

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-25012 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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