🛡️ CVE-2024-57257 — u-boot

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-674 NVD
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A stack consumption issue in sqfs_size in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occurs via a crafted squashfs filesystem with deep symlink nesting.

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 unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Affected software

CVE-2024-57257 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-2024-57257 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-674
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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