vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3697: Important: grub2, mokutil, shim, and shim-unsigned-x64 security update (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 6, 2022 | Aug 24, 2022 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 6, 2022
Added
Aug 24, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap. To a successful to be performed the attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout and craft an image with a malicious format and payload. This vulnerability can lead to data corruption and eventual code execution or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.
Solutions
alma-upgrade-grub2-commonalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64alma-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-cdbootalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-modulesalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-ia32alma-upgrade-grub2-efi-ia32-cdbootalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-ia32-modulesalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64alma-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64-cdbootalma-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64-modulesalma-upgrade-grub2-pcalma-upgrade-grub2-pc-modulesalma-upgrade-grub2-ppc64lealma-upgrade-grub2-ppc64le-modulesalma-upgrade-grub2-toolsalma-upgrade-grub2-tools-efialma-upgrade-grub2-tools-extraalma-upgrade-grub2-tools-minimalalma-upgrade-shim-aa64alma-upgrade-shim-ia32alma-upgrade-shim-unsigned-x64alma-upgrade-shim-x64
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