CVE-2024-57256

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Feb 18, 2025
Updated: May 12, 2026
Reserved: Jan 9, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

Product	Versions
U-Bootdenx	before 2025.01-rc1Affected

References

https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/35f75d2a46e5859138c83a75cd2f4141c5479ab9
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/17/2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00001.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-577017.html

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