Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting barebox package, versions [,2024.08.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BAREBOX-8737909
  • published19 Feb 2025
  • disclosed19 Feb 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-57262  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1