CVE-2024-53104
Published 2024-12-02 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Summary
CVE-2024-53104 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Linux Kernel. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on February 5, 2025, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by February 26, 2025. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Linux has 32 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 2 of them linked to ransomware.
All 32 known-exploited Linux vulnerabilities →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 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Linux — Kernel
Name: Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
Date added: 2025-02-05 · Due: 2025-02-26
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ee9d9122801eb688783acd07791f2906b87cb4f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/467d84dc78c9abf6b217ada22b3fdba336262e29
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/575a562f7a3ec2d54ff77ab6810e3fbceef2a91d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/622ad10aae5f5e03b7927ea95f7f32812f692bb5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/684022f81f128338fe3587ec967459669a1204ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95edf13a48e75dc2cc5b0bc57bf90d6948a22fe8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beced2cb09b58c1243733f374c560a55382003d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf2b43018da9579842c774b7f35dbe11b5c38dd