FKIE_CVE-2024-57255

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-18 23:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:13
Severity
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/233945eba63e24061dffeeaeb7cd6fe985278356Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/17/2Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00001.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
denx u-boot *
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