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[scarthgap,05/11] u-boot-tools: Ignore CVE-2024-57256

Message ID 54ac50ad1d952ee140ffa94524c6632afe609ccb.1787731424.git.hthakar@cisco.com
State New
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Series u-boot-tools: address multiple CVEs | expand

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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-2024-57256 affects U-Boot Ext4 runtime parsing [1].
- The tools-only build graph does not link fs/ext4 into its host tools
  [2].
- Hence ignore this CVE for u-boot-tools; the exclusion is
  configuration-based.

Reference:
[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57256
[2] https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/866ca972d6c3/tools/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>
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 meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2024.01.bb | 1 +
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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 6516d7698a..66e46fa7af 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
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@  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."
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-57254] = "not-applicable-config: SquashFS runtime code is not built or linked into the host tools produced by tools-only_defconfig."
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-57255] = "not-applicable-config: SquashFS runtime code is not built or linked into the host tools produced by tools-only_defconfig."
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-57256] = "not-applicable-config: Ext4 runtime code is not built or linked into the host tools produced by tools-only_defconfig."