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CVE-2025-0685

6.4 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.4 · gnuNVD modified 2026-10-21 17:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 3