MSRC_CVE-2024-56737

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2024-12-02 00:00 - Updated: 2025-09-03 21:53
Summary
GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 has a heap-based buffer overflow in fs/hfs.c via crafted sblock data in an HFS filesystem.

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