CVE-2019-13103 — A crafted self-referential DOS partition table will cause all Das U-Boot version

A crafted self-referential DOS partition table will cause all Das U-Boot versions through 2019.07-rc4 to infinitely recurse, causing the stack to grow infinitely and eventually either crash or overwrite other data.

01What is this vulnerability?

A crafted self-referential DOS partition table will cause all Das U-Boot versions through 2019.07-rc4 to infinitely recurse, causing the stack to grow infinitely and eventually either crash or overwrite other data.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-07-29T15:15:12.390
• Last modified: 2026-05-12T10:16:33.000

09References

• cert-portal.siemens.com — https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-618620.pdf
• gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/deephooloovoo/d91b81a1674b4750e662dfae93804d75
• github.com — https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commits/master
• lists.denx.de — https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2019-July/375512.html
• cert-portal.siemens.com — https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-618620.pdf
• gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/deephooloovoo/d91b81a1674b4750e662dfae93804d75
• github.com — https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commits/master
• lists.denx.de — https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2019-July/375512.html
• cert-portal.siemens.com — https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-577017.html
• cert-portal.siemens.com — https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-618620.html