Out-of-bounds Write Affecting u-boot-tools package, versions <2019.01-7.10.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-UBOOTTOOLS-2697981
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed11 Nov 2020

Introduced: 11 Nov 2020

CVE-2019-14193  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 u-boot-tools to version 2019.01-7.10.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream u-boot-tools package and not the u-boot-tools package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Das U-Boot through 2019.07. There is an unbounded memcpy with an unvalidated length at nfs_readlink_reply, in the "if" block after calculating the new path length.