- Description
- 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.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- grub2
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.4
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 0.5
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- secalert@redhat.com
- CWE-787
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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