🛡️ CVE-2024-57255 — u-boot

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-190 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-57255 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

CVE-2024-57255 is recorded against 1 package.

  • u-boot (fixed in 2024.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

source.denx.de
www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org

CVE-2024-57255 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
u-boot — 2024.10

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