Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-42040
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 qemu 8.2.0-16 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-42040
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.1 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the net/bootp.c in DENEX U-Boot from its initial commit in 2002 (3861aa5) up to today on any platform allows an attacker on the local network to leak memory from four up to 32 bytes of memory stored behind the packet to the network depending on the later use of DHCP-provided parameters via crafted DHCP responses.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-42040, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).