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GSD-2022-28736

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

Details

There's a use-after-free vulnerability in grub_cmd_chainloader() function; The chainloader command is used to boot up operating systems that doesn't support multiboot and do not have direct support from GRUB2. When executing chainloader more than once a use-after-free vulnerability is triggered. If an attacker can control the GRUB2's memory allocation pattern sensitive data may be exposed and arbitrary code execution can be achieved.

Aliases

CVE-2022-28736

Aliases

CVE-2022-28736

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CVE-2022-28736 (GCVE-0-2022-28736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-20 00:23 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:32

Title

There's a use-after-free vulnerability in grub_cmd_chainloader() function

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-24 18:53 UTC

Assigner

canonical CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 58 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CV…	issue-tracking
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023082…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GNU Project	GNU GRUB	Affected: 0 , < 2.06-3 (semver)

Date Public

2022-06-13 00:00

Credits

Chris Coulson

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