A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a romfs filesystem, grub's romfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciously 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_romfs_read_symlink() may cause out-of-bounds writes when the calling grub_disk_read() function. This issue 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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Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:15:00 +0000
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Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:30:00 +0000
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Title | grub2: romfs: Integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat | Grub2: romfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat |
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Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:45:00 +0000
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Description | No description is available for this CVE. | A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a romfs filesystem, grub's romfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciously 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_romfs_read_symlink() may cause out-of-bounds writes when the calling grub_disk_read() function. This issue may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections. |
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000
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Title | grub2: romfs: Integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat | |
Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2025-03-03T17:14:30.632Z
Updated: 2025-03-04T16:12:08.515Z
Reserved: 2025-01-23T19:13:28.900Z
Link: CVE-2025-0686

Updated: 2025-03-04T16:11:59.740Z

Status : Received
Published: 2025-03-03T18:15:30.930
Modified: 2025-03-03T18:15:30.930
Link: CVE-2025-0686
