# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21923"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:40:56.229Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:55:21.882Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
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-2025-21923"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21923.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21923"
title: "HID: hid-steam: Fix use-after-free when detaching device"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: hid-steam: Fix use-after-free when detaching device\n\nWhen a hid-steam device is removed it must clean up the client_hdev used for\nintercepting hidraw access. This can lead to scheduling deferred work to\nreattach the input device. Though the cleanup cancels the deferred work, this\nwas done before the client_hdev itself is cleaned up, so it gets rescheduled.\nThis patch fixes the ordering to make sure the deferred work is properly\ncanceled."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e1147961b2145fa61c3078a4a797d9576cde91ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"026714ec7546de741826324a6a1914c91024d06c"},{"version":"3e38cbbfa0a128a9d64773240a9eb3bc7bae3b1a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a899adf7063c6745aaff1ec869f3c7f6329ed0a1"},{"version":"053fa3888d2a957f4db26c05e503f4c6b9570a30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea3f18d2f02629653b7bfe42607737ccd1343e54"},{"version":"79504249d7e27cad4a3eeb9afc6386e418728ce0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e53fc232a65f7488ab75d03a5b95f06aaada7262"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6.79","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.83"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.19"},{"version":"6.13.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13.7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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