CVE-2023-54120

Bluetooth: Fix race condition in hidp_session_thread

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 24, 2025 at 01:06 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: Fix race condition in hidp_session_thread There is a potential race condition in hidp_session_thread that may lead to use-after-free. For instance, the timer is active while hidp_del_timer is called in hidp_session_thread(). After hidp_session_put, then 'session' will be freed, causing kernel panic when hidp_idle_timeout is running. The solution is to use del_timer_sync instead of del_timer. Here is the call trace: ? hidp_session_probe+0x780/0x780 call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x1e0 __run_timers.part.0+0x569/0x940 hidp_session_probe+0x780/0x780 call_timer_fn+0x1e0/0x1e0 ktime_get+0x5c/0xf0 lapic_next_deadline+0x2c/0x40 clockevents_program_event+0x205/0x320 run_timer_softirq+0xa9/0x1b0 __do_softirq+0x1b9/0x641 __irq_exit_rcu+0xdc/0x190 irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vendor states this is fixed in 0efb276d5848a3accc37c6f41b85e442c4768169 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 152f47bd6b995e0e98c85672f6d19894bc287ef2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 248af9feca062a4ca9c3f2ccf67056c8a5eb817f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5f3d214d19899183d4e0cce7552998262112e4ab (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8a99e6200c38b78a45dcd12a6bdc43fdf4dc36be (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c95930abd687fcd1aa040dc4fe90dff947916460 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f6719fd8f409fa1da8dc956e93822d25e1e8b360 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f7ec5ca433ceead8d9d78fd2febff094f289441d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.14.313 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.281 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.108 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.241 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.25 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
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