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CVE-2024-42040

CVE

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
3
occurrences
First Seen
February 18, 2026
Last Seen
February 23, 2026
API
Exploited in Wild
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Ransomware Use
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Public Exploits
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Attack Vector
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Vulnerability Overview

Exploitation Activity

Exploitation Intelligence

Two vulnerabilities have been reported affecting network protocols. CVE-2024-42040, a buffer overflow in DENEX U-Boot, allows local network attackers to leak memory ranging from 4 to 32 bytes. CVE-2019-19076, a memory leak in the Linux kernel, has been argued as invalid and its upstream commit was r...

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. T...

Public Exploits

Checking GitHub for proof-of-concept code…