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CVE-2026-71973

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.2 Published: 2026-09-29 Modified: 2026-09-29

Description

U-Boot before 2026.10-rc4 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in sqfs_read_directory_table() function when allocating the directory table buffer. Attackers can supply a crafted SquashFS image with an attacker-controlled superblock metablks_count value that causes heap buffer under-allocation and out-of-bounds writes, corrupting heap memory and crashing the bootloader.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-190

References