CVE-2022-2601 (GCVE-0-2022-2601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-14 00:00 – Updated: 2026-05-27 14:04
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a grub2 Affected: grub2 2.06 and lower
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