CVE-2024-53081: media: ar0521: don't overflow when checking PLL values
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-53081 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 20 · Related 20Timeline
- 19-11-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ar0521: don't overflow when checking PLL values The PLL checks are comparing 64 bit integers with 32 bit ones, as reported by Coverity. Depending on the values of the variables, this may underflow. Fix it ensuring that both sides of the expression are u64.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.23%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
14%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.23% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu104 products
- linux< 6.8.0-58.60
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 6.8.0-1027.29
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 852b50aeed153b513c0b36298559114fab0fab80, < 5e1523076acf95b4ea68d19b6f27e6891267cc24 | ≥ 852b50aeed153b513c0b36298559114fab0fab80, < a244b82d0ae60326901f2b50c15e3118298b7ecd | ≥ 852b50aeed153b513c0b36298559114fab0fab80, < 97ed0c0332d5525653668b31acf62ff1e6b50784 | ≥ 852b50aeed153b513c0b36298559114fab0fab80, < 438d3085ba5b8b5bfa5290faa594e577f6ac9aa7 | 6.0
- linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.1.117 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.61 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.8 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4 | 6.12:rc5 | 6.12:rc6
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.119-1 | < 6.11.9-1
3 vendors · 107 products
