{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-02-12T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: hid: Use After Free in asus_remove()",
    "id" : "2173444",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173444"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free may be triggered in asus_kbd_backlight_set when plugging/disconnecting in a malicious USB device, which advertises itself as an Asus device. Similarly to the previous known CVE-2023-25012, but in asus devices, the work_struct may be scheduled by the LED controller while the device is disconnecting, triggering a use-after-free on the struct asus_kbd_leds *led structure. A malicious USB device may exploit the issue to cause memory corruption with controlled data.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in asus_kbd_backlight_set in drivers/hid/hid-asus.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow an attacker to crash the system when plugging in or disconnecting a malicious USB device, which may lead to a kernel information leak problem." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6901",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.rt7.307.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0412",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0575",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.43.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0412",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1079\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1079\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=4ab3a086d10eeec1424f2e8a968827a6336203df" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-1079",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "This flaw can be mitigated by preventing the affected ASUS HID driver (for notebook built-in keyboard) module from loading during the boot time, ensure the module is added into the blacklist file.\n~~~\nRefer:  \nHow do I blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically? \nhttps://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278\n~~~",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}