cve-2025-0685
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-03 17:14
Modified
2025-03-04 16:13
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.03% (0.06904)
Summary
A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a jfs filesystem, grub's jfs filesystem 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_jfs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the internal buffer length during grub_jfs_read_file(). This issue can 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-2025-0685
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346120
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Version: 0   ≤ 2.12
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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