CVE-2024-53197
ALSA USB Audio out-of-bound Array Access Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Dec. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Dec. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
Source :
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
Exploitability Score :
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Dark Reading
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Cyber Security News
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The Hacker News
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The Register
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Cybersecurity News
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security.nl
Amnesty: Cellebrite gebruikte Android usb-lek voor ontgrendelen telefoons
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Cyber Security News
Android Phone’s Unlocked Using Cellebrite’s Linux USB Zero-day Exploit
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The Hacker News
Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone
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BleepingComputer
Serbian police used Cellebrite zero-day hack to unlock Android phones
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New CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Dec. 27, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added 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. Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4ea4bfe16566b84645ded1403756a2dc4e0f19 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/379d3b9799d9da953391e973b934764f01e03960 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62dc01c83fa71e10446ee4c31e0e3d5d1291e865 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/920a369a9f014f10ec282fd298d0666129379f1b Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9887d859cd60727432a01564e8f91302d361b72b Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b8460a2a7ce478e0b625af7c56d444dc24190f7 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b521b53ac6eb04e41c03f46f7fe452e4d8e9bcca Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8f8b81dabe52b413fe9e062e8a852c48dd0680d Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b909df18ce2a998afef81d58bbd1a05dc0788c40
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