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Grub2: read: integer overflow may lead to out-of-bounds write

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

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CVE-2025-0690

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2025-0690

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

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Structured affected-version data

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        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "2.12"
      }
    ],
    "packageName": "grub2",
    "collectionURL": "https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
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      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "versions": [
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        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "1:2.06-104.el9_6",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "rpm"
      }
    ],
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    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  },
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    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "packageName": "grub2",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "packageName": "grub2",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "packageName": "grub2",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  },
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "packageName": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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CVE-2025-0690

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medium

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#49442 · Revision 1
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