CVEs / CVE-2024-53150
CVE-2024-53150: Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
- Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 9 Apr 2025
- high 7.1 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
- EPSS 1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
- Last changed at its sources
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Summary
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.
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 and fixed versions
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before a632bdcb359fd8145e86486ff8612da98e239acd | a632bdcb359fd8145e86486ff8612da98e239acd |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before 45a92cbc88e4013bfed7fd2ccab3ade45f8e896b | 45a92cbc88e4013bfed7fd2ccab3ade45f8e896b |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before ab011f7439d9bbfd34fd3b9cef4b2d6d952c9bb9 | ab011f7439d9bbfd34fd3b9cef4b2d6d952c9bb9 |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before da13ade87a12dd58829278bc816a61bea06a56a9 | da13ade87a12dd58829278bc816a61bea06a56a9 |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before 74cb86e1006c5437b1d90084d22018da30fddc77 | 74cb86e1006c5437b1d90084d22018da30fddc77 |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before ea0fa76f61cf8e932d1d26e6193513230816e11d | ea0fa76f61cf8e932d1d26e6193513230816e11d |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before 096bb5b43edf755bc4477e64004fa3a20539ec2f | 096bb5b43edf755bc4477e64004fa3a20539ec2f |
| Linux Linux | from b8e4f1fdfa422398c2d6c47bfb7d1feb3046d70a, before a3dd4d63eeb452cfb064a13862fb376ab108f6a6 | a3dd4d63eeb452cfb064a13862fb376ab108f6a6 |
| Linux Linux | 9feeaa50e5b4b0b71259d918a36ecf9059e60796 | — |
| Linux Linux | 3b17a13b687ae99939dc94a4ae01fbc34f68decc | — |
| Linux Linux | from 4.19.84, before 4.20 | 4.20 |
| Linux Linux | from 5.3.11, before 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Linux Linux | 5.4 | — |
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Kernel (Linux) | from 5.4.0, before 5.4.287 | 5.4.287 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 5.5.0, before 5.10.231 | 5.10.231 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 5.11.0, before 5.15.174 | 5.15.174 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 5.16.0, before 6.1.120 | 6.1.120 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 6.2.0, before 6.6.64 | 6.6.64 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 6.7.0, before 6.11.11 | 6.11.11 |
| Kernel (Linux) | from 6.12.0, before 6.12.2 | 6.12.2 |
Exploitation
| In CISA KEV since | 9 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Due date for US federal agencies | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Used in ransomware campaigns | 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. |
Severity
| CVSS 3.1 | 7.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HScored by NVD |
|---|---|
| Weakness | CWE-125 |
References
- CVE-2024-53150 on NVD
- CVE-2024-53150 in the CISA KEV catalog
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122427-CVE-2024-53150-3a7d@gregkh/ (cited by CISA)
- https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-04-01 (cited by CISA)
- CVE-2024-53150 on OSV
- 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
Sources
Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.
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