CVE-2025-0678
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:grub2
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:openshift_container_platform