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.

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: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: u-boot, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: u-boot, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: u-boot, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: u-boot, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: u-boot-nezha, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: u-boot, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: u-boot-nezha, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: u-boot

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.