CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-42040
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the net/bootp.c in DENEX U-Boot from its initial commit in 2002 (3861aa5) up to today on any platform allows an attacker on the local network to leak memory from four up to 32 bytes of memory stored behind the packet to the network depending on the later use of DHCP-provided parameters via crafted DHCP responses.
Affected configurations
• denx u-boot (<= 2025.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/tags Release Notes
- https://www.schutzwerk.com/advisories/SCHUTZWERK-SA-2024-004.txt Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Aug/38 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory