CVE-2024-53104
Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 26 February 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvc_parse_streaming.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.40% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 5 February 2025 · due 26 February 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- debian/debian linux · linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. For more information, please see: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024120232-CVE-2024-53104-d781@gregkh/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53104
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ee9d9122801eb688783acd07791f2906b87cb4fPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/467d84dc78c9abf6b217ada22b3fdba336262e29Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/575a562f7a3ec2d54ff77ab6810e3fbceef2a91dPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/622ad10aae5f5e03b7927ea95f7f32812f692bb5Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/684022f81f128338fe3587ec967459669a1204aePatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95edf13a48e75dc2cc5b0bc57bf90d6948a22fe8Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beced2cb09b58c1243733f374c560a55382003d6Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf2b43018da9579842c774b7f35dbe11b5c38ddPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faff5bbb2762c44ec7426037b3000e77a11d6773Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.htmlMailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.htmlMailing List
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-53104US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.