CVE-2023-53454 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: multitouch: Correct devm device reference for hidinput input_dev name
Reference the HID device rather than the input device for the devm
allocation of the input_dev name. Referencing the input_dev would lead to a
use-after-free when the input_dev was unregistered and subsequently fires a
uevent that depends on the name. At the point of firing the uevent, the
name would be freed by devres management.
Use devm_kasprintf to…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc08d46aa805ba46d501f610c2448d07bea979780 — ac0d389402a6ff9ad92cea02c2d8c711483b91ab+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53454: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: multitouch: Correct devm device reference for hidinput input_dev name Referen↗2025-10-01
GHSA▶
GHSA-g3j7-2pwv-3vm5: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: multitouch: Correct devm device reference for hidinput input_dev name
Refer↗2025-10-01