cve-2025-0678
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-03 17:05
Modified
2025-03-25 05:01
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0678Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346118Issue Tracking
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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