CVE-2018-18440

HIGH

DENX U-Boot through 2018.09-rc1 - Buffer Overflow via Crafted Kernel Image

Title source: llm

DENX U-Boot through 2018.09-rc1 has a locally exploitable buffer overflow via a crafted kernel image because filesystem loading is mishandled.

Core 2

Core References

Exploit, Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0057

EPSS Percentile 43.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (2)

denx/u-boot 2018.09 rc1

denx/u-boot < 2018.07

Published Nov 20, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026