Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting barebox package, versions [,2024.08.0)
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- published19 Feb 2025
- disclosed19 Feb 2025
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Introduced: 19 Feb 2025
NewCVE-2024-57262 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade barebox to version 2024.08.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound in the ext4fs_read_symlink() function. An attacker can cause memory corruption by mounting a malicious ext4 filesystem with an inode size of 0xffffffff.