A flaw was found in grub2. When reading a symbolic link's name from a UFS filesystem, grub2 fails to validate the string length taken as an input. The lack of validation may lead to a heap out-of-bounds write, causing data integrity issues and eventually allowing an attacker to circumvent secure boot protections.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

History

Thu, 22 May 2025 11:45:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10

Wed, 14 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Tue, 13 May 2025 19:45:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
References

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-787

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

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threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in grub2. When reading a symbolic link's name from a UFS filesystem, grub2 fails to validate the string length taken as an input. The lack of validation may lead to a heap out-of-bounds write, causing data integrity issues and eventually allowing an attacker to circumvent secure boot protections.
Title Grub2: fs/ufs: oob write in the heap
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-07-29T09:41:26.260Z

Reserved: 2024-09-08T01:57:12.948Z

Link: CVE-2024-45781

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-02-19T14:43:24.921Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-02-18T20:15:19.450

Modified: 2025-05-13T20:15:24.913

Link: CVE-2024-45781

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-02-18T18:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-45781 - Bugzilla

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