CVE-2026-29008
HIGHU-Boot 2026.04-rc3 Integer Underflow DoS via tcp_rx_state_machine()
Title source: cnaDescription
U-Boot through 2026.04-rc3 contains an integer underflow vulnerability in the tcp_rx_state_machine() function (net/tcp.c) that allows a network-adjacent attacker to crash the bootloader by sending a malformed TCP SYN+ACK packet with a manipulated data offset field causing payload_len to become negative. When the TCP_SYN_SENT handler calls tcp_rx_user_data() without invoking tcp_seg_in_wnd() validation, the negative payload_len is implicitly converted to a large unsigned integer (e.g., 0xFFFFFFD8) and passed to memcpy() in store_block(), causing an immediate crash that prevents device boot and may enable memory corruption when CONFIG_LMB is disabled.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
Mailing List Outreach
https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2026-May/617853.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/u-boot-rc3-integer-underflow-dos-via-tcp-rx-state-machine
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-191
Status
published
Products (1)
u-boot/u-boot
< 2026.04-rc3
Published
Jul 08, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 08, 2026