diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/patches/squashfs-4.2-fix-CVE-2012-4024.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/patches/squashfs-4.2-fix-CVE-2012-4024.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b9904f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/patches/squashfs-4.2-fix-CVE-2012-4024.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+Reference:http://squashfs.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=
+squashfs/squashfs;a=commit;h=19c38fba0be1ce949ab44310d7f49887576cc123
+
+Fix potential stack overflow in get_component() where an individual
+pathname component in an extract file (specified on the command line
+or in an extract file) could exceed the 1024 byte sized targname
+allocated on the stack.
+
+Fix by dynamically allocating targname rather than storing it as
+a fixed size on the stack.
+
+Signed-off-by: yanjun.zhu <yanjun.zhu@windriver.com>
+diff -urpN a/unsquashfs.c b/unsquashfs.c
+--- a/unsquashfs.c	2012-11-29 17:04:08.000000000 +0800
++++ b/unsquashfs.c	2012-11-29 17:04:25.000000000 +0800
+@@ -1034,15 +1034,18 @@ void squashfs_closedir(struct dir *dir)
+ }
+ 
+ 
+-char *get_component(char *target, char *targname)
++char *get_component(char *target, char **targname)
+ {
++	char *start;
++
+ 	while(*target == '/')
+ 		target ++;
+ 
++	start = target;
+ 	while(*target != '/' && *target!= '\0')
+-		*targname ++ = *target ++;
++		target ++;
+ 
+-	*targname = '\0';
++	*targname = strndup(start, target - start);
+ 
+ 	return target;
+ }
+@@ -1068,12 +1071,12 @@ void free_path(struct pathname *paths)
+ 
+ struct pathname *add_path(struct pathname *paths, char *target, char *alltarget)
+ {
+-	char targname[1024];
++	char *targname;
+ 	int i, error;
+ 
+ 	TRACE("add_path: adding \"%s\" extract file\n", target);
+ 
+-	target = get_component(target, targname);
++	target = get_component(target, &targname);
+ 
+ 	if(paths == NULL) {
+ 		paths = malloc(sizeof(struct pathname));
+@@ -1097,7 +1100,7 @@ struct pathname *add_path(struct pathnam
+ 			sizeof(struct path_entry));
+ 		if(paths->name == NULL)
+ 			EXIT_UNSQUASH("Out of memory in add_path\n");	
+-		paths->name[i].name = strdup(targname);
++		paths->name[i].name = targname;
+ 		paths->name[i].paths = NULL;
+ 		if(use_regex) {
+ 			paths->name[i].preg = malloc(sizeof(regex_t));
+@@ -1130,6 +1133,8 @@ struct pathname *add_path(struct pathnam
+ 		/*
+ 		 * existing matching entry
+ 		 */
++		free(targname);
++
+ 		if(paths->name[i].paths == NULL) {
+ 			/*
+ 			 * No sub-directory which means this is the leaf
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools_4.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools_4.2.bb
index c54081b..9922f1e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools_4.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools_4.2.bb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Tools to manipulate Squashfs filesystems."
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2 & PD"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/patches:"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                     file://../../7zC.txt;beginline=12;endline=16;md5=2056cd6d919ebc3807602143c7449a7c \
                    "
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ PR = "1"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/squashfs/squashfs${PV}.tar.gz;name=squashfs \
            http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma465.tar.bz2;name=lzma \
           "
+SRC_URI += "file://squashfs-4.2-fix-CVE-2012-4024.patch \
+           " 
 SRC_URI[squashfs.md5sum] = "1b7a781fb4cf8938842279bd3e8ee852"
 SRC_URI[squashfs.sha256sum] = "d9e0195aa922dbb665ed322b9aaa96e04a476ee650f39bbeadb0d00b24022e96"
 SRC_URI[lzma.md5sum] = "29d5ffd03a5a3e51aef6a74e9eafb759"