CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53150
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability — Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the USB-audio driver that allows a local, privileged attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
- Added to KEV
- 2025-04-09
- Remediation due
- 2025-04-30
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Notes
- This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. For more information, please see: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122427-CVE-2024-53150-3a7d@gregkh/ ; https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-04-01 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53150
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources
The current USB-audio driver code doesn't check bLength of each
descriptor at traversing for clock descriptors. That is, when a
device provides a bogus descriptor with a shorter bLength, the driver
might hit out-of-bounds reads.
For addressing it, this patch adds sanity checks to the validator
functions for the clock descriptor traversal. When the descriptor
length is shorter than expected, it's skipped in the loop.
For the clock source and clock multiplier descriptors, we can just
check bLength against the sizeof() of each descriptor type.
OTOH, the clock selector descriptor of UAC2 and UAC3 has an array
of bNrInPins elements and two more fields at its tail, hence those
have to be checked in addition to the sizeof() check.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 11.0
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.287)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.231)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/096bb5b43edf755bc4477e64004fa3a20539ec2f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a92cbc88e4013bfed7fd2ccab3ade45f8e896b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74cb86e1006c5437b1d90084d22018da30fddc77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3dd4d63eeb452cfb064a13862fb376ab108f6a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a632bdcb359fd8145e86486ff8612da98e239acd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab011f7439d9bbfd34fd3b9cef4b2d6d952c9bb9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13ade87a12dd58829278bc816a61bea06a56a9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea0fa76f61cf8e932d1d26e6193513230816e11d Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html Mailing List
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-53150 US Government Resource