CVE-2025-70290

Publication date 26 August 2026

Last updated 2 September 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in Denx U-Boot before 2026.04. An integer overflow vulnerability in the ZFS filesystem support can be triggered by malformed on-disk metadata. The issue may result in incorrect memory allocation followed by out-of-bounds memory access, potentially leading to a crash or arbitrary code execution during the boot process.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
u-boot 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
u-boot-nezha 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H


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