high7.8Known exploited
CVE-2024-53197
Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2025-04-09. Federal due date: 2025-04-30.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices A bogus device can provide a bNumConfigurations value that exceeds the initial value used in usb_get_configuration for allocating dev->config. This can lead to out-of-bounds accesses later, e.g. in usb_destroy_configuration.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 2.6.12 before 4.19.325 from 4.20 before 5.4.287 from 5.5 before 5.10.231 from 5.11 before 5.15.174 from 5.16 before 6.1.120 from 6.2 before 6.6.64 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 11.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- CISA KEV catalog
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4ea4bfe16566b84645ded1403756a2dc4e0f19
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/379d3b9799d9da953391e973b934764f01e03960
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62dc01c83fa71e10446ee4c31e0e3d5d1291e865
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/920a369a9f014f10ec282fd298d0666129379f1b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9887d859cd60727432a01564e8f91302d361b72b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b8460a2a7ce478e0b625af7c56d444dc24190f7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b521b53ac6eb04e41c03f46f7fe452e4d8e9bcca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8f8b81dabe52b413fe9e062e8a852c48dd0680d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b909df18ce2a998afef81d58bbd1a05dc0788c40
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-53197