CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-57256
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
An integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occurs for zalloc (adding one to an le32 variable) via a crafted ext4 filesystem with an inode size of 0xffffffff, resulting in a malloc of zero and resultant memory overwrite.
Affected configurations
• denx u-boot (<= 2024.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/35f75d2a46e5859138c83a75cd2f4141c5479ab9 Patch
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/17/2 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-577017.html cert-portal.siemens.com