CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-0690
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
The read command is used to read the keyboard input from the user, while reads it keeps the input length in a 32-bit integer value which is further used to reallocate the line buffer to accept the next character. During this process, with a line big enough it's possible to make this variable to overflow leading to a out-of-bounds write in the heap based buffer. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and secure boot bypass is not discarded as consequence.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6990 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0690 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346123 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html lists.gnu.org