Bug 2346121 (CVE-2025-0686) - CVE-2025-0686 grub2: romfs: Integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat
Summary: CVE-2025-0686 grub2: romfs: Integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-0686
Deadline: 2025-02-18
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2025-02-17 15:32 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-19 17:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-17 15:32:34 UTC
When performing a symlink lookup from a romfs filesystem, grub's romfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciously crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculation to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result the grub_romfs_read_symlink() may cause a out-of-bounds writes when calling grub_disk_read() function. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.


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