Integer overflow in U-Boot
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-190 and the CVSS impact.
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA U-Boot (denx) Fixed in 2025.01-rc1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
denx U-Boot 2025.01-rc1
6 records Highest priority Priority LOW 6 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2024-37849 Integer overflow in U-BootPriority LOW 36
- TI-2024-37850 sqfs_search_dir in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 exhibits an off-by-one error and…Priority LOW 33
- TI-2024-37847 Integer overflow in U-BootPriority LOW 33
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-57255
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5cmq-wrwp-9x26
References
More U-boot vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-02168 Unchecked Download size in Uboot CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7
- TI-2025-28794 A lack of signature verification in the bootloader of DENX Software Engineering Das… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2020-06770 In Das U-Boot through 2020.01, a double free has been found in the cmd/gpt.c… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-12898 nfs_lookup_reply in net/nfs.c in Das U-Boot through 2022.04 (and through 2022.07-rc2) has… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-10569 An issue was discovered in Das U-Boot through 2019.07. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-10568 An issue was discovered in Das U-Boot through 2019.07. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2024-57255 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-57255 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5cmq-wrwp-9x26 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-57255 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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