#VU105295 Resource exhaustion in Universal Boot Loader (U-Boot) - CVE-2024-57257
Published: March 4, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU105295
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-57257
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Universal Boot Loader (U-Boot)
Universal Boot Loader (U-Boot)
Software vendor:
DENX
DENX
Description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the sqfs_size() function. A local user can use a specially crafted squashfs filesystem with deep symlink nesting to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.