vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-18440): u-boot vulnerability

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Nov 20, 2018

Added

Jun 26, 2025

Modified

Jun 26, 2025

Description

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

no-fix-ubuntu-package

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