CVE-2024-53150: Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
- Name
- Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Kernel
- Added to the catalog
- 2025-04-09
- Due date for US federal agencies
- 2025-04-30
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
- Catalog version
- 2026.10.30
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.
Required action (CISA)
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.
Links in CISA's notes
- 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
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NVD analysis
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-12-24T12:15:23.117
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17T08:08:25.567
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
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.
| Metric | Score | Severity | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | 7.1 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H | [email protected] (Primary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | 7.1 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary) |
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)
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CVE record
- Title (CNA)
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources
- Assigner
- Linux
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- 2024-12-24T11:28:50.175Z
- Updated
- 2026-05-23T15:55:17.404Z
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a632bdcb359fd8145e86486ff8612da98e239acd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a92cbc88e4013bfed7fd2ccab3ade45f8e896b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab011f7439d9bbfd34fd3b9cef4b2d6d952c9bb9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13ade87a12dd58829278bc816a61bea06a56a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74cb86e1006c5437b1d90084d22018da30fddc77
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea0fa76f61cf8e932d1d26e6193513230816e11d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/096bb5b43edf755bc4477e64004fa3a20539ec2f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3dd4d63eeb452cfb064a13862fb376ab108f6a6
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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)
D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.
CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
- Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
- Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
- Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
- Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
- Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
- Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
- Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
- Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)
- Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.
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