🛡️ CVE-2024-57259 — u-boot

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-193 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
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Description

sqfs_search_dir in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 exhibits an off-by-one error and resultant heap memory corruption for squashfs directory listing because the path separator is not considered in a size calculation.

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-2024-57259 is classified as CWE-193: Off-by-one Error. A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected software

CVE-2024-57259 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-2024-57259 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-193
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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