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CVE-2024-53150

Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 ⚠ CISA KEV EPSS 0.01125
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  • Listed on CISA KEV (known exploited in the wild)
  • SSVC exploitation status: active
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Required Remediation

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

Weakness Classification

Affected Products & Versions

8
debian linuxall versions
linux kernel< 5.4.287
linux kernel>= 5.5 and < 5.10.231
linux kernel>= 5.11 and < 5.15.174
linux kernel>= 5.16 and < 6.1.120
linux kernel>= 6.2 and < 6.6.64
linux kernel>= 6.7 and < 6.11.11
linux kernel>= 6.12 and < 6.12.2

Scoring & Timeline

7.1
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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None Low High
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None Low High
Published to NVD24 Dec 2024 · 12:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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active
Automatable
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