CVE-2024-53197: Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability
- Is it exploited?
Yes. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on , 103 days after the CVE record was published.
- How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?
- 4.1%
EPSS score, percentile 90.7 of all scored records
- How severe?
- 7.8 High
CVSS v3.1 base score, from CISA's enrichment of the record
- What should I do?
CISA deadline . Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
The CVE record links no vendor advisory, patch or mitigation.
- Which versions are affected?
Affected
- 2.6.12
Unaffected before 2.6.12; 4.19.325; 5.4.287; 5.10.231; 5.15.174; 6.1.120; and 4 more
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of ; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of ; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.
What to do
Required action, set by 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.
CISA due date for this action: .
Advisories and patches
The CVE record links no vendor advisory, patch or mitigation.
Linked from CISA's catalog entry
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122725-CVE-2024-53197-6aef@gregkh/
- https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-04-01
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53197
Affected products and versions
As listed in the CVE record.
| Status | Versions |
|---|---|
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 0b4ea4bfe165 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 9b8460a2a7ce |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 62dc01c83fa7 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 9887d859cd60 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 920a369a9f01 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before b8f8b81dabe5 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before 379d3b9799d9 |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before b521b53ac6eb |
| Affected | from 1da177e4c3f4 to before b909df18ce2a |
Versions not listed are: unaffected.
| Status | Versions |
|---|---|
| Affected | 2.6.12 |
| Unaffected | before 2.6.12 |
| Unaffected | 4.19.325 |
| Unaffected | 5.4.287 |
| Unaffected | 5.10.231 |
| Unaffected | 5.15.174 |
| Unaffected | 6.1.120 |
| Unaffected | 6.6.64 |
| Unaffected | 6.11.11 |
| Unaffected | 6.12.2 |
| Unaffected | 6.13 |
Versions not listed are: affected.
Versions the record lists as unaffected: 4.19.325, 5.4.287, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2.
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.
About this vulnerability
Linux Kernel contains an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in the USB-audio driver that allows an attacker with physical access to the system to use a malicious USB device to potentially manipulate system memory, escalate privileges, or execute arbitrary code.
Summary: CISA's KEV catalog, as of .
- CISA added CVE-2024-53197 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 9 Apr 2025.
- CISA's ransomware flag for this entry is "Unknown": no evidence of ransomware use in the catalog, which is not proof of none.
- The due date CISA sets for the required action is 30 Apr 2025.
- The CVE record was published on 27 Dec 2024, 103 days before it was added to KEV.
- The CVE record carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High), taken from CISA's enrichment of the record.
- FIRST's EPSS model puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 4.1% (percentile 90.7), as of 28 Oct 2026.
- CISA's SSVC assessment in the CVE record: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact total.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of ; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of ; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of . About the data.
Description
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices
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.
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.
Weakness
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record and the KEV entry.
Timeline
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References
- git.kernel.org
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