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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0684

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0684 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.400000095367432 MEDIUM

A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a reiserfs filesystem, grub's reiserfs fs 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_reiserfs_read_symlink() will call grub_reiserfs_read_real() with a overflown length parameter, leading to a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.400000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14grub20, 0
Debian:13grub20, 0
Debian:11grub22.06-13+hurd.2, 2.06-14, 2.06-2
Debian:12grub2*, 2.06-13+deb12u1, 2.06-13+hurd.1

Timeline

  • Mar 3, 2025 CVE Published
  • May 16, 2026 CVE Updated
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