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CVE-2018-18440

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

DENX U-Boot through 2018.09-rc1 has a locally exploitable buffer overflow via a crafted kernel image because filesystem loading is mishandled.

Affected products

• u-boot: through 2018.07; 2018.09-rc1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/2
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-618620.pdf
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/02/2
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-618620.pdf

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