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Permalink CVE-2025-0678
6.4 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
  • Privileges required (PR): HIGH
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Grub2: squash4: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs 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 direct_read() will perform a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

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Affected products

grub2
  • =<2.12
rhcos

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.grub2_pvgrub_image

PvGrub2 image for booting PV Xen guests

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixpkgs-unstable

pkgs.grub2_pvhgrub_image

PvGrub2 image for booting PVH Xen guests

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixpkgs-unstable

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