An issue was discovered in Denx U-Boot before 2026.04. An integer overflow vulnerability in the ZFS filesystem support can be triggered by malformed on-disk metadata. The issue may result in incorrect memory allocation followed by out-of-bounds memory access, potentially leading to a crash or arbitrary code execution during the boot process.
History

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Metrics ssvc

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Title Denx U‑Boot ZFS Filesystem Integer Overflow leading to Arbitrary Code Execution during Boot

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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Title Integer Overflow in Denx U‑Boot ZFS Support Enables Boot‑time Arbitrary Code Execution
Weaknesses CWE-119

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Weaknesses CWE-787
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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Title Integer Overflow in Denx U‑Boot ZFS Support Enables Boot‑time Arbitrary Code Execution
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-190

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First Time appeared U-boot
U-boot u-boot
Vendors & Products U-boot
U-boot u-boot

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Description An issue was discovered in Denx U-Boot before 2026.04. An integer overflow vulnerability in the ZFS filesystem support can be triggered by malformed on-disk metadata. The issue may result in incorrect memory allocation followed by out-of-bounds memory access, potentially leading to a crash or arbitrary code execution during the boot process.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-08-27T19:10:50.219Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-70290

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-27T19:10:40.937Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-26T20:16:59.550

Modified: 2026-09-09T16:04:24.933

Link: CVE-2025-70290

cve-icon Redhat

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