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CVE-2022-2601

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CVE-2022-2601

Published: Dec 14, 2022

Modified: May 27, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

grub2

affected
grub2 2.06 and lower

Weaknesses (CWE)

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