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CVE-2024-57262

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: February 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:13 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBarebox

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Barebox· Pengutronix
95%
v < 2025.01.0
Affected range stops below 2025.01.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

Source: [email protected]
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=a2b76550f7d8
Source: [email protected]
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=a2b76550f7d87ba6f88a9ea50e71f107b514ff4e

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.1HIGHmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-190

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