CVE-2023-40548

Published Jan 29, 2024

Last updated 6 months ago

Overview

Description
A buffer overflow was found in Shim in the 32-bit system. The overflow happens due to an addition operation involving a user-controlled value parsed from the PE binary being used by Shim. This value is further used for memory allocation operations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This flaw causes memory corruption and can lead to a crash or data integrity issues during the boot phase.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.4
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.4
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-190

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