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.
History
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-22T01:13:28.591Z

Reserved: 2022-08-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-2601

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-14T21:15:10.190

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:01:19.873

Link: CVE-2022-2601

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-11-15T10:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-2601 - Bugzilla