CVE-2026-29008CWE-191

U-Boot 2026.04-rc3 Integer Underflow DoS via tcp_rx_state_machine()

High · published July 8, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

U-Boot through 2026.04-rc3 contains an integer underflow vulnerability in the tcp_rx_state_machine() function (net/tcp.c) that allows a network-adjacent attacker to crash the bootloader by sending a malformed TCP SYN+ACK packet with a manipulated data offset field causing payload_len to become negative. When the TCP_SYN_SENT handler calls tcp_rx_user_data() without invoking tcp_seg_in_wnd() validation, the negative payload_len is implicitly converted to a large unsigned integer (e.g., 0xFFFFFFD8) and passed to memcpy() in store_block(), causing an immediate crash that prevents device boot and may enable memory corruption when CONFIG_LMB is disabled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00706 · 52.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-191 · Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Published
2026-07-08T16:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 JUL 16:14Z
    U-Boot 2026.04-rc3 Integer Underflow DoS via tcp_rx_state_machine()
    cvelistv5