CVE-2024-57255
MEDIUM
6.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:13 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorU Boot
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Severity
MEDIUM6.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
Mailing ListMitigationThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/17/2Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00001.htmlSSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- PHYSICAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190
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