CVE-2024-53150

Linux Kernel: Out-of-Bounds Read

As of , CVE-2024-53150 in Linux Kernel is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch soon.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 9 April 2025
US federal deadline
30 April 202521 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.01Higher than 70% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
Public exploit
None foundNeither Metasploit nor Exploit-DB lists one.
Fix
Vendor advice: lore.kernel.org and source.android.comLinks below, from CISA's entry.

What CISA says to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

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.

CISA's 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.

The CVE record's description, from Linux

CVE published
24 December 2024
Assigned by
Linux
CVSS
7.1 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  3. The US federal deadline to fix it.

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CVE-2026-53266Out-of-Bounds WriteLinux KernelPatch nowForensic triage required by CISA0.01
CVE-2026-53362UnspecifiedLinux KernelPatch nowForensic triage required by CISA0.01
CVE-2021-22555Heap Out-of-Bounds WriteLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.79; verified Exploit-DB entry0.79
CVE-2013-6282Improper Input ValidationLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module; verified Exploit-DB entry0.40
CVE-2019-13272Improper Privilege ManagementLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.52; verified Exploit-DB entry0.52
CVE-2010-3904Improper Input ValidationLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module; verified Exploit-DB entry0.16
CVE-2022-0847Privilege EscalationLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.930.93
CVE-2021-3493Privilege EscalationLinux KernelPatch this weekMetasploit module0.49

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