🛡️ CVE-2024-57262

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

In barebox before 2025.01.0, ext4fs_read_symlink has an integer overflow 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, a related issue to CVE-2024-57256.

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-2024-57262 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-2024-57262 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 19 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.pengutronix.de
git.pengutronix.de

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 2025-02-19
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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