vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-56738: grub2: Observable Timing Discrepancy resulting side-channel attacks

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 29, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 does not use a constant-time algorithm for grub_crypto_memcmp and thus allows side-channel attacks.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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