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LIN1024-35971 : Security Advisory - u-boot - CVE-2026-71971

Created: Oct 23, 2026 Updated: Oct 27, 2026

Resolved Date: Oct 23, 2026

Found In Version: 10.24.33.2

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 24

Component/s: Userspace

Description

U-Boot before 2026.10-rc3 with CONFIG_IP_DEFRAG enabled contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the __net_defragment() function in net/net.c. Remote attackers can send a crafted IP fragment with non-zero offset and More-Fragments flag set during netboot to corrupt adjacent memory and crash the bootloader.
Data source: VulnCheck (disclosure@vulncheck.com)