CVE-2024-57259

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-193

Description

sqfs_search_dir in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 exhibits an off-by-one error and resultant heap memory corruption for squashfs directory listing because the path separator is not considered in a size calculation.

Affected products

u-boot: through 2024.10

References

https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/048d795bb5b3d9c5701b4855f5e74bcf6849bf5e
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/17/2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00001.html

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