CVE-2025-0677 — Out-of-bounds Write in Grub2
Severity
6.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 19
Description
A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup, the grub's UFS module checks the inode's data size to allocate the internal buffer to read the file content, however, it fails to check if the symlink data size has overflown. When this occurs, grub_malloc() may be called with a smaller value than needed. When further reading the data from the disk into the buffer, the grub_ufs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the end of the allocated size. An attack can leverage this by craft…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.5 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
3Red Hat▶
grub2: UFS: Integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks↗2025-02-18
Microsoft▶
Grub2: ufs: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks↗2025-02-11
Debian▶
CVE-2025-0677: grub2 - A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup, the grub's UFS modu...↗2025