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Permalink CVE-2025-0689
6.4 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
  • Privileges required (PR): HIGH
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 3 months ago
Grub2: udf: heap based buffer overflow in grub_udf_read_block() may lead to arbitrary code execution

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.

Affected products

grub2
  • =<2.12
rhcos

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.grub2_pvgrub_image

PvGrub2 image for booting PV Xen guests

  • nixos-25.11 -
    • nixpkgs-25.11-darwin

pkgs.grub2_pvhgrub_image

PvGrub2 image for booting PVH Xen guests

  • nixos-25.11 -
    • nixpkgs-25.11-darwin

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