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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3696

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3696 PUBLISHED CVSS 4.5 MEDIUM

A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader. This may lead to data corruption in the heap space. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availablity impact may be considered Low as it's very complex to an attacker control the encoding and positioning of corrupted Huffman entries to achieve results such as arbitrary code execution and/or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
4.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11grub22.06-2+hurd.2, 2.06-3~deb10u3, 2.06-3~deb10u4
Debian:13grub20, 0, 0
Debian:12grub20, 0, 0
Debian:14grub20, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jul 6, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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