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ubuntu-cve-2025-0685

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2025-02-18 18:00

Modified

2026-05-20 15:15

Summary

Details

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a jfs filesystem, grub's jfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciouly 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 grub_jfs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the internal buffer length during grub_jfs_read_file(). This issue can be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.4 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0685	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0685	REPORT

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CVE-2025-0685 (GCVE-0-2025-0685)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-03 17:14 – Updated: 2026-06-29 23:24

Title

Grub2: jfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

redhat

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0685	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346120	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/202…

Impacted products

6 products

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.12 (semver)
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4

Date Public

2025-02-18 18:00

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