DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0685
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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | grub2 | 2.06-13, 2.14-2, * |
| Debian:11 | grub2 | 2.12-5+hurd.1, 2.06-8.1, 2.12-7 |
| Debian:13 | grub2 | 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | grub2 | 0, 0 |
Timeline
- Mar 3, 2025 CVE Published
- May 16, 2026 CVE Updated