Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting barebox package, versions [,2024.12.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 Feb 2025
- disclosed19 Feb 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 19 Feb 2025
CVE-2024-57261 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade barebox to version 2024.12.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound in the request2size() function. An attacker can trigger this by providing a req value between LONG_MAX - (SIZE_SZ + MALLOC_ALIGN_MASK) - 1 and LONG_MAX, which wraps around to MINSIZE.