CVE-2024-57262

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

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 products

barebox: before 2025.01.0 — fixed in 2025.01.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: barebox 2025.01.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=a2b76550f7d8
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=a2b76550f7d87ba6f88a9ea50e71f107b514ff4e

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