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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-29008 EUVD-2026-42332GHSA-3qwj-q697-4ppr

U-Boot 2026.04-rc3 Integer Underflow DoS via tcp_rx_state_machine()

Published Jul 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
u-boot u-boot ≤ 2026.04-rc3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 u-boot No fix yet —
Debian 13 u-boot No fix yet —
Debian 12 u-boot No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 u-boot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS u-boot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 u-boot No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS u-boot +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS u-boot +1 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS u-boot No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS u-boot No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS u-boot No fix yet —

Advisories 1

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