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CVE-2024-53223: clk: ralink: mtmips: fix clocks probe order in oldest ralink SoCs

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • 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: 0.22% (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 d34db686a3d74bd564bfce2ada15011c556269fc, e29306c0e1ae4b434db32c90705844c77f701be5, fbb13732c6ffa9d58cedafabcd5ce8fd7ef8ae5a.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux d34db686a3d74bd564bfce2ada15011c556269fc, e29306c0e1ae4b434db32c90705844c77f701be5, fbb13732c6ffa9d58cedafabcd5ce8fd7ef8ae5a or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: ralink: mtmips: fix clocks probe order in oldest ralink SoCs Base clocks are the first in being probed and are real dependencies of the rest of fixed, factor and peripheral clocks. For old ralink SoCs RT2880, RT305x and RT3883 'xtal' must be defined first since in any other case, when fixed clocks are probed they are delayed until 'xtal' is probed so the following warning appears: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c:499 rt3883_bus_recalc_rate+0x98/0x138 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.43 #0 Stack : 805e58d0 00000000 00000004 8004f950 00000000 00000004 00000000 00000000 80669c54 80830000 80700000 805ae570 80670068 00000001 80669bf8 00000000 00000000 00000000 805ae570 80669b38 00000020 804db7dc 00000000 00000000 203a6d6d 80669b78 80669e48 70617773 00000000 805ae570 00000000 00000009 00000000 00000001 00000004 00000001 00000000 00000000 83fe43b0 00000000 ... Call Trace: [<800065d0>] show_stack+0x64/0xf4 [<804bca14>] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x60 [<800218ac>] __warn+0x94/0xe4 [<8002195c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x60/0x94 [<80259ff8>] rt3883_bus_recalc_rate+0x98/0x138 [<80254530>] __clk_register+0x568/0x688 [<80254838>] of_clk_hw_register+0x18/0x2c [<8070b910>] rt2880_clk_of_clk_init_driver+0x18c/0x594 [<8070b628>] of_clk_init+0x1c0/0x23c [<806fc448>] plat_time_init+0x58/0x18c [<806fdaf0>] time_init+0x10/0x6c [<806f9bc4>] start_kernel+0x458/0x67c ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- When this driver was mainlined we could not find any active users of old ralink SoCs so we cannot perform any real tests for them. Now, one user of a Belkin f9k1109 version 1 device which uses RT3883 SoC appeared and reported some issues in openWRT: - https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/16054 Thus, define a 'rt2880_xtal_recalc_rate()' just returning the expected frequency 40Mhz and use it along the old ralink SoCs to have a correct boot trace with no warnings and a working clock plan from the beggining.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 12th percentile
CWE
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22

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CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel6.5 and later · before 6.6.64
  • linux linux kernel6.7 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

    • 6.5affected
    • 6f3b15586eef736831abe6a14f2a6906bc0dc074 and later · before fbb13732c6ffa9d58cedafabcd5ce8fd7ef8ae5aaffected · git
    • 6f3b15586eef736831abe6a14f2a6906bc0dc074 and later · before fe09d609f2304c7775789090e3f006d786852148affected · git
    • 6f3b15586eef736831abe6a14f2a6906bc0dc074 and later · before e29306c0e1ae4b434db32c90705844c77f701be5affected · git
    • 6f3b15586eef736831abe6a14f2a6906bc0dc074 and later · before d34db686a3d74bd564bfce2ada15011c556269fcaffected · git
    • before 6.5not affected · semver
    • 6.6.64 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not 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.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.12.3-16.12.3-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-53221Dec 27, 2024 · f2fs: fix null-ptr-deref in f2fs_submit_page_bio()
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-53222Dec 27, 2024 · zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-53225Dec 27, 2024 · iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix alignment failure at max_n_shift
    22Monitor

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linuxd34db686a3d74bd564bfce2ada15011c556269fcVendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxe29306c0e1ae4b434db32c90705844c77f701be5Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxfbb13732c6ffa9d58cedafabcd5ce8fd7ef8ae5aVendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxfe09d609f2304c7775789090e3f006d786852148Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.12.3-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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Variant candidates

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No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

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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
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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References

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