CVE-2024-53104 — Kernel
HIGHCVE-2024-53104 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Kernel. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-05) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available for Kernel — see the affected versions and patch details below.
media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-05. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-26.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-53104.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-53104 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Real-World Exposure
KernelReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Linux packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
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.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐧Linux | Kernel | ≥ 2.6.26&&< 4.19.324 | 4.19.324 |
Affected Products
debian linuxdebianlinux kernellinuxDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for Kernel, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update Kernel to 4.19.324 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-53104 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
This vulnerability exists in functionality used by the USB Video Class driver to decode the format of video frames. This driver is used for USB devices which capture streaming video, such as webcams. A function which reads streaming video frame metadata does not correctly account for frames in an unknown format, which…
This flaw can be mitigated by preventing the `uvcvideo` module from loading. See "How do I prevent a kernel module from loading automatically?"[1] for more information. Note that disabling this module will prevent UVC devices such as webcams or video capture devices from functioning properly. Preventing the `uvcvideo` module from loading is also an effective mitigation for OpenShift environments. Different methods of applying that mitigation are available, depending on the vulnerable cluster's configuration. See "USB CVE-2024-53104 Mitigation for OpenShift" [2] for more details. That document also details alternative mitigations available through the use of compliance profiles and…Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-53104 (CC BY 4.0)
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | kernel-0:6.12.0-55.13.1.el10_0 | RHSA-2025:8137 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION | kernel-0:2.6.32-754.55.1.el6 | RHSA-2025:1347 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support | kernel-0:3.10.0-1062.92.1.el7 | RHSA-2025:1282 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support | kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.132.1.rt56.1284.el7 | RHSA-2025:1280 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support | kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.132.1.el7 | RHSA-2025:1281 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.40.1.rt7.381.el8_10 | RHSA-2025:1230 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-0:4.18.0-553.40.1.el8_10 | RHSA-2025:1266 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kpatch-patch | RHSA-2025:1657 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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