vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2025-0684: grub2 -- security update
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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6 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Mar 3, 2025 | May 15, 2025 | May 27, 2025 |
Description
A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a reiserfs filesystem, grub's reiserfs fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculations to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result, the grub_reiserfs_read_symlink() will call grub_reiserfs_read_real() with a overflown length parameter, leading to a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.
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