CVE-2024-57257 Denial of service in U-Boot

What is CVE-2024-57257?

CVE-2024-57257 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in denx U-Boot, published on 18 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A stack consumption issue in sqfs_size in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occurs via a crafted squashfs filesystem with deep symlink nesting.

Weakness: CWE-674

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57257?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Denx U-Boot.

How do I fix CVE-2024-57257?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-57257 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57257 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in denx U-Boot

• CVE-2022-34835 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-30767 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-8432 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-14192 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-14193 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57257, GHSA-8h8c-f86r-pf3c, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57257.