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[scarthgap,02/11] u-boot-tools: Ignore CVE-2024-42040

Message ID 240b02378283bcfe760e1902a29fad5361fda380.1787731424.git.hthakar@cisco.com
State New
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Series u-boot-tools: address multiple CVEs | expand

Commit Message

Hetvi Thakar -X (hthakar - E INFOCHIPS PRIVATE LIMITED at Cisco) Aug. 26, 2026, 8:12 a.m. UTC 
From: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>

Analysis:
- CVE-2024-42040 affects the U-Boot DHCP client in net/bootp.c [1].
- u-boot-tools uses tools-only_defconfig, where CONFIG_NET is disabled
  [2].
- Hence ignore this CVE for u-boot-tools; the exclusion is
  configuration-based.

Reference:
[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42040
[2] https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/866ca972d6c3/configs/tools-only_defconfig

Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>
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 meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb
index 4b6d89ed4e..b5711e1f97 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@  require u-boot-common.inc
 require u-boot-tools.inc
 
 SRC_URI += "file://CVE-2026-46728.patch"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-42040] = "not-applicable-config: DHCP client code in net/bootp.c is not built by tools-only_defconfig, which disables CONFIG_NET."