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CVE-2024-53197: Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2025-04-09
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• 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 — fixed in 4.19.325, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 5.4.287, 6.1.120, 6.11.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.19.325, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 5.4.287. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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

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