CVE-2024-57255 HIGH

CVE-2024-57255

Vendor Denx
Product U-Boot
Weakness CWE-190
Published February 18, 2025
Last update November 3, 2025

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Physical
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 18, 2025 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated