Das U-Boot from v2020.10 to v2022.07-rc3 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds write via the function sqfs_readdir().

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Das U-Boot from v2020.10 to v2022.07-rc3 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds write via the function     sqfs_readdir(). (CVE-2022-33103)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5764-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain USB DFU download setup packets. A local attacker     could use this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-2347)

    Nicolas Bidron and Nicolas Guigo discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain fragmented IP packets.
    A local attacker could use this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu     22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-30552, CVE-2022-30790)

    It was discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain NFS lookup replies. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-30767)

    Jincheng Wang discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain SquashFS structures. A local attacker     could use this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-33103)

    Tatsuhiko Yasumatsu discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain SquashFS structures. A local     attacker could use this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-33967)

    It was discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled the i2c command. A local attacker could use this issue     to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-34835)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2868-1 advisory.

  - Das U-Boot from v2020.10 to v2022.07-rc3 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds write via the function     sqfs_readdir(). (CVE-2022-33103)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2869-1 advisory.

  - Das U-Boot from v2020.10 to v2022.07-rc3 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds write via the function     sqfs_readdir(). (CVE-2022-33103)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
224774	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-33103	Nessus	Misc.	high
168465	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : U-Boot vulnerabilities (USN-5764-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
164334	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : u-boot (SUSE-SU-2022:2868-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
164332	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : u-boot (SUSE-SU-2022:2869-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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