CVE-2026-71973

medium

Assigned by CNA: vulncheck

Published 2026-09-29 · Modified 2026-09-29

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CVSS v3

5.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

5.2

CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

VIR risk

5.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

52%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.