DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0684
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
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | grub2 | 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | grub2 | 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | grub2 | 2.06-13+hurd.2, 2.06-14, 2.06-2 |
| Debian:12 | grub2 | *, 2.06-13+deb12u1, 2.06-13+hurd.1 |
Timeline
- Mar 3, 2025 CVE Published
- May 16, 2026 CVE Updated