CVE-2024-57255 (GCVE-0-2024-57255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:32
VLAI
Summary
An integer overflow in sqfs_resolve_symlink in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occurs via a crafted squashfs filesystem with an inode size of 0xffffffff, resulting in a malloc of zero and resultant memory overwrite.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-19 15:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2338 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
denx U-Boot Affected: 0 , < 2025.01-rc1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:denx:u-boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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