USN-8930-1: U-Boot vulnerabilities
USN-8930-1
Summary
USN-8930-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in U-Boot. This update provides the corresponding fix for U-Boot on Ubuntu 26.10.
Original advisory details:
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain NFS READ and NFS READLINK responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2026-74220, CVE-2026-74221)
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain HTTP data storage failures in its lwIP implementation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a use-after-free, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-74222)
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot did not properly validate certain DHCPv6 option lengths during network boot. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger out-of-bounds memory access, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-74225)
Products covered
A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.
Remediation
USN-8930-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in U-Boot.
CVEs in this advisory 4
Updates
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