> USN-8930-2: U-Boot vulnerabilities
[DATE: 21/10/2026 15:57]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
USN-8930-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in U-Boot. This update provides the
corresponding fix for U-Boot on Ubuntu 26.10.
Original advisory details:
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot
incorrectly handled certain NFS READ and NFS READLINK responses. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a buffer overflow,
resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2026-74220, CVE-2026-74221)
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot
incorrectly handled certain HTTP data storage failures in its lwIP
implementation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a
use-after-free, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-74222)
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot did not
properly validate certain DHCPv6 option lengths during network boot. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger out-of-bounds memory
access, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-74225)