CVE-2025-0678

Grub2: squash4: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Mar 3, 2025
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Jan 23, 2025

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Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciously 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 direct_read() will perform a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

ProductVersions
grub2
  • 2.12 and earlierAffected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
          Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat
            Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat

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