Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a romfs filesystem, grub's romfs filesystem 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 grub_romfs_read_symlink() may cause out-of-bounds writes when the calling grub_disk_read() function. This issue may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.

Weaknesses 1

Affected Products 1

References 2

• access.redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0686
  Vendor Advisory
• bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346121
  Issue Tracking

Remediation