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CVE-2024-57256

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.8) in denx u-boot. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occurs 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.8 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-190
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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