Security Advisory

CVE-2024-57262

7.1
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

In barebox before 2025.01.0, ext4fs_read_symlink has an integer overflow for zalloc (adding one to an le32 variable) via a crafted ext4 filesystem with an inode size of 0xffffffff, resulting in a malloc of zero and resultant memory overwrite, a related issue to CVE-2024-57256.
Published Date February 19, 2025
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory