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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52478" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-29T05:43:10.698Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:10:08.517Z" 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-2023-52478" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52478.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52478" title: "HID: logitech-hidpp: Fix kernel crash on receiver USB disconnect" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: logitech-hidpp: Fix kernel crash on receiver USB disconnect\n\nhidpp_connect_event() has *four* time-of-check vs time-of-use (TOCTOU)\nraces when it races with itself.\n\nhidpp_connect_event() primarily runs from a workqueue but it also runs\non probe() and if a \"device-connected\" packet is received by the hw\nwhen the thread running hidpp_connect_event() from probe() is waiting on\nthe hw, then a second thread running hidpp_connect_event() will be\nstarted from the workqueue.\n\nThis opens the following races (note the below code is simplified):\n\n1. Retrieving + printing the protocol (harmless race):\n\n\tif (!hidpp-\u003eprotocol_major) {\n\t\thidpp_root_get_protocol_version()\n\t\thidpp-\u003eprotocol_major = response.rap.params[0];\n\t}\n\nWe can actually see this race hit in the dmesg in the abrt output\nattached to rhbz#2227968:\n\n[ 3064.624215] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4071.0049: HID++ 4.5 device connected.\n[ 3064.658184] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4071.0049: HID++ 4.5 device connected.\n\nTesting with extra logging added has shown that after this the 2 threads\ntake turn grabbing the hw access mutex (send_mutex) so they ping-pong\nthrough all the other TOCTOU cases managing to hit all of them:\n\n2. Updating the name to the HIDPP name (harmless race):\n\n\tif (hidpp-\u003ename == hdev-\u003ename) {\n\t\t...\n\t\thidpp-\u003ename = new_name;\n\t}\n\n3. Initializing the power_supply class for the battery (problematic!):\n\nhidpp_initialize_battery()\n{\n if (hidpp-\u003ebattery.ps)\n return 0;\n\n\tprobe_battery(); /* Blocks, threads take turns executing this */\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties =\n\t\tdevm_kmemdup(dev, hidpp_battery_props, cnt, GFP_KERNEL);\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.ps =\n\t\tdevm_power_supply_register(&hidpp-\u003ehid_dev-\u003edev,\n\t\t\t\t\t &hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc, cfg);\n}\n\n4. Creating delayed input_device (potentially problematic):\n\n\tif (hidpp-\u003edelayed_input)\n\t\treturn;\n\n\thidpp-\u003edelayed_input = hidpp_allocate_input(hdev);\n\nThe really big problem here is 3. Hitting the race leads to the following\nsequence:\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties =\n\t\tdevm_kmemdup(dev, hidpp_battery_props, cnt, GFP_KERNEL);\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.ps =\n\t\tdevm_power_supply_register(&hidpp-\u003ehid_dev-\u003edev,\n\t\t\t\t\t &hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc, cfg);\n\n\t...\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties =\n\t\tdevm_kmemdup(dev, hidpp_battery_props, cnt, GFP_KERNEL);\n\n\thidpp-\u003ebattery.ps =\n\t\tdevm_power_supply_register(&hidpp-\u003ehid_dev-\u003edev,\n\t\t\t\t\t &hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc, cfg);\n\nSo now we have registered 2 power supplies for the same battery,\nwhich looks a bit weird from userspace's pov but this is not even\nthe really big problem.\n\nNotice how:\n\n1. This is all devm-maganaged\n2. The hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc struct is shared between the 2 power supplies\n3. hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties points to the result from the second\n devm_kmemdup()\n\nThis causes a use after free scenario on USB disconnect of the receiver:\n1. The last registered power supply class device gets unregistered\n2. The memory from the last devm_kmemdup() call gets freed,\n hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties now points to freed memory\n3. The first registered power supply class device gets unregistered,\n this involves sending a remove uevent to userspace which invokes\n power_supply_uevent() to fill the uevent data\n4. power_supply_uevent() uses hidpp-\u003ebattery.desc.properties which\n now points to freed memory leading to backtraces like this one:\n\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffb2140e017f08\n...\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: RIP: 0010:power_supply_uevent+0xee/0x1d0\n...\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: ? power_supply_uevent+0xee/0x1d0\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: ? power_supply_uevent+0x10d/0x1d0\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: dev_uevent+0x10f/0x2d0\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: kobject_uevent_env+0x291/0x680\nSep 22 20:01:35 eric kernel: \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca0c4cc1d215dc22ab0e738c9f017c650f3183f5"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44481b244fcaa2b895a53081d6204c574720c38c"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd0e2bf7fb22fe9b989c59c42dca06367fd10e6b"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"093af62c023537f097d2ebdfaa0bc7c1a6e874e1"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28ddc1e0b898291323b62d770b1b931de131a528"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd72ac9556a473fc7daf54efb6ca8a97180d621d"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7b2c7d9831af99369fe8ad9b2a68d78942f414e"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dac501397b9d81e4782232c39f94f4307b137452"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.14.328","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","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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