CVE-2026-71973EPSS p7.3%
CVE-2026-71973CVE-2026-71973
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.2 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 7.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-02 |