HIGH 8.1 Microsoft

CVE-2024-42040

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the net/bootp.c in DENEX U-Boot from its initial commit in 2002 (3861aa5) up to today on any platform allows an attacker on the local network to leak memory from four up to 32 bytes of memory stored behind the packet to the network depending on the later use of DHCP-provided parameters via crafted DHCP responses.

Microsoft Security Update 2024-Aug: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the net/bootp.c in DENEX U-Boot from its initial commit in 2002 (3861aa5) up to today on any platform allows an attacker on the local network to leak memory from four up to 32 bytes of memory stored behind the packet to the network depending on the later use of DHCP-provided parameters via crafted DHCP responses.

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Published: 2024-08-13 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-10-28
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1 was published on 2024-08-13 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL Mariner 2.0, azl3 qemu 8.2.0-16 on Azure Linux 3.0, cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL-Mariner 2.0.
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