Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-57258

Memory Safety in Denx U-Boot ≤ 2024.10

Memory Safety
Published
18 February 2025
Modified
12 May 2026
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 15th percentile
Risk Priority 50 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57258 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Denx U-Boot. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 15th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-57258 is an integer overflow vulnerability (CWE-190) affecting memory allocation in Das U-Boot versions before 2025.01-rc1. The flaw occurs when processing a crafted SquashFS filesystem, triggering overflows via the sbrk function, the request2size function, or mishandling of ptrdiff_t on x86_64 architectures.

Exploitation requires physical access to the target device (AV:P) and high attack complexity (AC:H), with no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N) required. A successful attack can achieve high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:I:A:H/H/H) with a changed scope (S:C), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1.

Mitigation patches are provided in U-Boot repository commits 0a10b49206a29b4aa2f80233a3e53ca0466bb0b3, 8642b2178d2c4002c99a0b69a845a48f2ae2706f, and c17b2a05dd50a3ba437e6373093a0d6a359cdee0. Advisories on oss-security (2025/02/17) and Debian LTS announce (2025/05/msg00001.html) detail the issue and recommend upgrading to U-Boot 2025.01-rc1 or applying the fixes.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Integer overflows in memory allocation in Das U-Boot before 2025.01-rc1 occur for a crafted squashfs filesystem via sbrk, via request2size, or because ptrdiff_t is mishandled on x86_64.

CWE(s)
CWE-190

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
attack.mitre.org →
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2024-57255Same product: Denx U-Boot
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CVE-2024-57254Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2024-42040Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2026-29009Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2024-57259Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2026-29008Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2026-29007Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2025-45512Same product: Denx U-Boot
CVE-2024-57257Same product: Denx U-Boot

Affected Assets

denx
u-boot
≤ 2024.10

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V5.2.6

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation good match

Developer testing and evaluation (static analysis, fuzzing, unit tests) directly finds integer overflow defects before deployment.

SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles partial match

Secure engineering principles require use of safe arithmetic constructs or language features that structurally eliminate integer overflow during calculation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match

Input validation enforces bounds on values before arithmetic, stopping the conditions that trigger overflow or wraparound.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require use of safe arithmetic, bounds checks, and testing that prevent integer overflows.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing in development can detect integer overflows before release.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and arithmetic checks that prevent integer overflows.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
degrades

Application security requirements include bounds checking and safe arithmetic to avoid overflow conditions.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
degrades

Secure architecture principles require defensive coding patterns that mitigate integer wraparound risks.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe integer operations and mandate overflow-safe constructs.

References