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Critical U-Boot Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Critical U-Boot Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

First seen 23 Feb 2026, 21:10 UTC • •

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and its derivatives are affected by critical vulnerabilities in U-Boot, a boot loader for embedded systems. An attacker on the local network could exploit these issues to obtain sensitive memory contents or cause a denial of service through specially crafted squashfs file systems. The vulnerabilities are identified as CVE-2024-42040 and CVE-2024-57254.

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2024-08-23
CVE-2024-42040 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57254 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57259 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57257 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57258 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57255 published
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-57256 published
2026-02-23
Security issue reported affecting Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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