When reading data from a hfs filesystem, grub's hfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem metadata to calculate the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculation to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result the hfsplus_open_compressed_real() function will write past of the internal buffer length. This flaw may 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
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · gnuNVD modified 2026-10-21 17:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 3
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1125 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346138 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory