linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53759: HID: hidraw: fix data race on device refcount

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Message-ID: <2025120844-CVE-2023-53759-c444@gregkh>
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2025 10:19:58 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53759: HID: hidraw: fix data race on device refcount

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: hidraw: fix data race on device refcount

The hidraw_open() function increments the hidraw device reference
counter. The counter has no dedicated synchronization mechanism,
resulting in a potential data race when concurrently opening a device.

The race is a regression introduced by commit 8590222e4b02 ("HID:
hidraw: Replace hidraw device table mutex with a rwsem"). While
minors_rwsem is intended to protect the hidraw_table itself, by instead
acquiring the lock for writing, the reference counter is also protected.
This is symmetrical to hidraw_release().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53759 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 8590222e4b021054a7167a4dd35b152a8ed7018e and fixed in 6.1.37 with commit 879e79c3aead41b8aa2e91164354b30bd1c4ef3b
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 8590222e4b021054a7167a4dd35b152a8ed7018e and fixed in 6.3.11 with commit ff348eabd97577da974d3db7038857f28c61d2bd
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 8590222e4b021054a7167a4dd35b152a8ed7018e and fixed in 6.4.1 with commit 05b47034e2488c2924e5c032e20a1979d012b5b5
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 8590222e4b021054a7167a4dd35b152a8ed7018e and fixed in 6.5 with commit 944ee77dc6ec7b0afd8ec70ffc418b238c92f12b

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53759
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/hid/hidraw.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/879e79c3aead41b8aa2e91164354b30bd1c4ef3b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff348eabd97577da974d3db7038857f28c61d2bd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b47034e2488c2924e5c032e20a1979d012b5b5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/944ee77dc6ec7b0afd8ec70ffc418b238c92f12b