CVE-2025-0689

Grub2: udf: heap based buffer overflow in grub_udf_read_block() may lead to arbitrary code execution

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

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Description

When reading data from disk, the grub's UDF filesystem module utilizes the user controlled data length metadata to allocate its internal buffers. In certain scenarios, while iterating through disk sectors, it assumes the read size from the disk is always smaller than the allocated buffer size which is not guaranteed. A crafted filesystem image may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in critical data to be corrupted, resulting in the risk of arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

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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