Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Not supplied / Not supplied | affected 0 through 2.12 |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | unaffected |
CWE
CWE-787
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0685
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346120
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
ADP enrichment
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