MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-74220 (CVSS 8.8)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 29, 2026Risk 37/100

U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains a buffer overflow in nfs_read_reply() function in net/nfs-common.c that allows attackers to corrupt memory by supplying crafted NFS READ reply lengths. A malicious NFS server can exploit signed integer handling to bypass length validation and write far past the destination buffer, crashing the bootloader or corrupting memory.

Technical details

CVSS

8.8

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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