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CVE-2024-53192: clk: clk-loongson2: Fix potential buffer overflow in flexible-array member access

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.24% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Linux Linux 02fb4f0084331ef72c28d0c70fcb15d1bea369ec, 1bf8877150128c3abd9d233886a05f6966fbf0c7, b96fc194984d0c82de1ca2b4166b35b1298b216c.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 02fb4f0084331ef72c28d0c70fcb15d1bea369ec, 1bf8877150128c3abd9d233886a05f6966fbf0c7, b96fc194984d0c82de1ca2b4166b35b1298b216c or later.

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Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: clk-loongson2: Fix potential buffer overflow in flexible-array member access Flexible-array member `hws` in `struct clk_hw_onecell_data` is annotated with the `counted_by()` attribute. This means that when memory is allocated for this array, the _counter_, which in this case is member `num` in the flexible structure, should be set to the maximum number of elements the flexible array can contain, or fewer. In this case, the total number of elements for the flexible array is determined by variable `clks_num` when allocating heap space via `devm_kzalloc()`, as shown below: 289 struct loongson2_clk_provider *clp; ... 296 for (p = data; p->name; p++) 297 clks_num++; 298 299 clp = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(clp, clk_data.hws, clks_num), 300 GFP_KERNEL); So, `clp->clk_data.num` should be set to `clks_num` or less, and not exceed `clks_num`, as is currently the case. Otherwise, if data is written into `clp->clk_data.hws[clks_num]`, the instrumentation provided by the compiler won't detect the overflow, leading to a memory corruption bug at runtime. Fix this issue by setting `clp->clk_data.num` to `clks_num`.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Memory safety

BDU:2025-15396

Published: Dec 27, 2024
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 15th percentile
CWE: CWE-120

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

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CNA vs NVD score

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CNA · Linux: 7.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

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linux linux kernel6.10 and later · before 6.11.11
linux linux kernel6.12 and later · before 6.12.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Linux Linux
- 6.10affected
- 9796ec0bd04bb0e70487127d44949ca0554df5d3 and later · before b96fc194984d0c82de1ca2b4166b35b1298b216caffected · git
- 9796ec0bd04bb0e70487127d44949ca0554df5d3 and later · before 1bf8877150128c3abd9d233886a05f6966fbf0c7affected · git
- 9796ec0bd04bb0e70487127d44949ca0554df5d3 and later · before 02fb4f0084331ef72c28d0c70fcb15d1bea369ecaffected · git
- before 6.10not affected · semver
- 6.11.11 and later · up to and including 6.11.*not affected · semver
- 6.12.2 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
- 6.13 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:13	linux	before 6.12.3-1	6.12.3-1

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31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Linux Linux	02fb4f0084331ef72c28d0c70fcb15d1bea369ec	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	1bf8877150128c3abd9d233886a05f6966fbf0c7	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	b96fc194984d0c82de1ca2b4166b35b1298b216c	Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux	6.12.3-1 · Debian:13	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

When data is copied, the source length is not compared with the size of the destination buffer. Excess data overwrites adjacent memory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-120 class

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Vulnerable

1char buf[256];
2memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Fixed

1char buf[256];
2if (pkt->len > sizeof(buf)) {
3  return -EINVAL;
4}
5memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);

Attack context

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/02fb4f0084331ef72c28d0c70fcb15d1bea369ec

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