CVE-2022-2601 (GCVE-0-2022-2601)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-14 00:00
Modified
2024-08-22 01:13
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A buffer overflow was found in grub_font_construct_glyph(). A malicious crafted pf2 font can lead to an overflow when calculating the max_glyph_size value, allocating a smaller than needed buffer for the glyph, this further leads to a buffer overflow and a heap based out-of-bounds write. An attacker may use this vulnerability to circumvent the secure boot mechanism.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a grub2 Version: grub2 2.06 and lower
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