{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-54079", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-12-24T13:02:52.514Z", "datePublished": "2025-12-24T13:06:11.956Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:17:02.722Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:17:02.722Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove\n\nBefore this patch bq27xxx_battery_teardown() was setting poll_interval = 0\nto avoid bq27xxx_battery_update() requeuing the delayed_work item.\n\nThere are 2 problems with this:\n\n1. If the driver is unbound through sysfs, rather then the module being\n rmmod-ed, this changes poll_interval unexpectedly\n\n2. This is racy, after it being set poll_interval could be changed\n before bq27xxx_battery_update() checks it through\n /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval\n\nFix this by added a removed attribute to struct bq27xxx_device_info and\nusing that instead of setting poll_interval to 0.\n\nThere also is another poll_interval related race on remove(), writing\n/sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval will requeue\nthe delayed_work item for all devices on the bq27xxx_battery_devices\nlist and the device being removed was only removed from that list\nafter cancelling the delayed_work item.\n\nFix this by moving the removal from the bq27xxx_battery_devices list\nto before cancelling the delayed_work item." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - Both sides of the race are reached through local interfaces — the `poll_interval` module parameter under /sys/module/, driver bind/unbind (or rmmod), and world-readable power_supply attributes under /sys/class/power_supply/. No network or physical access is required.\nAC:L - The attacker drives both sides of the race and can retry indefinitely (unbind/bind loop plus a writer/reader loop on the sysfs attributes), and the widest window spans the entire `power_supply_unregister()` call, which takes milliseconds. Once the work is re-armed the freed object is not touched for up to `poll_interval` seconds, leaving a large window for reliable heap reclaim.\nPR:L - The re-queue leg of the race is reachable from an ordinary unprivileged local user: reading world-readable /sys/class/power_supply/bq27xxx-N/capacity (and friends) enters `bq27xxx_battery_get_property()` → `bq27xxx_battery_update_unlocked()` → `mod_delayed_work()`, which is precisely the path the fix's `di->removed` flag closes under `di->lock`. The removal itself is a routine environmental event (module unload, sysfs unbind, or hot-removal of a w1/HDQ battery pack) rather than a privilege the attacker must hold.\nUI:N - No victim action is required — the attacker's own loops on the sysfs interfaces trigger the race, and the removal path also occurs during ordinary system operation such as module unload or battery hot-removal.\nS:U - The use-after-free is confined to kernel memory within the same security authority; there is no crossing of a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary.\nC:H - The resurrected work item reads `di->regs` and `di->bat` as raw pointers out of freed slab memory and dereferences them, so an attacker who reclaims the ~200-byte object gains an arbitrary kernel-memory read primitive whose results are observable through the power_supply cache.\nI:H - The freed object is dereferenced for an indirect call, `di->bus.read(di, ...)`, and the freed memory also hosts the armed `timer_list`/`work_struct` — both give control-flow hijack from attacker-sprayed data, and `mutex_lock(&di->lock)` plus `di->cache = cache` write into the freed allocation.\nA:H - Even without successful reclaim, running a delayed work item whose `work_struct` and mutex live in freed memory reliably produces workqueue/timer list corruption and a kernel oops — the original OOPS this code path was supposed to prevent." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c", "include/linux/power/bq27xxx_battery.h" ], "versions": [ { "version": "8cfaaa811894a3ae2d7360a15a6cfccff3ebc7db", "lessThan": "4c9615474fb0a41cfad658d78db3c9ec70912969", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "8cfaaa811894a3ae2d7360a15a6cfccff3ebc7db", "lessThan": "465d919151a1e8d40daf366b868914f59d073211", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": 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