🛡️ CVE-2024-42040
🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-23
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-04-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
u-boot 2025.10

References

Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Aug/38

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