CVE-2022-2601

HIGH8.6EPSS 0.12%

grub2 - security update

Published: 12/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2601

Description

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.

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)