CVE-2024-57262: Pengutronix Barebox

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pengutronix Barebox: before 2025.01.0 (fixed in 2025.01.0)

Published 2025-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.