CVE-2024-53197
HIGH KEVLinux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Write in USB Audio Configuration Handling
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2024-53197 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added April 9, 2025.
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.
References (12)
Core 12
Core References
US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-53197
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0204
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CISA KEV
2025-04-09
VulnCheck KEV
2024-12-04
InTheWild.io
2024-11-20
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2024-51869
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (30)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
linux/Kernel
2.6.12 - 4.19.325linux
linux/Kernel
4.20.0 - 5.4.287linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.174linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.120linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.231linux
linux/Kernel
6.12.0 - 6.12.2linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.64linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.11.11linux
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.12
... and 20 more
Published
Dec 27, 2024
KEV Added
Apr 09, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026