CVE-2025-0678

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Grub2
PublishedMar 3, 2025
First seenMar 3, 2025

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu grub2v ≤ 2.12—
redhat openshift_container_platform4.0—
redhat enterprise_linux7.0, 8.0, 9.0—

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