Description
A flaw was found in grub2. During the network boot process, when trying to search for the configuration file, grub copies data from a user controlled environment variable into an internal buffer using the grub_strcpy() function. During this step, it fails to consider the environment variable length when allocating the internal buffer, resulting in an out-of-bounds write. If correctly exploited, this issue may result in remote code execution through the same network segment grub is searching for the boot information, which can be used to by-pass secure boot protections.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
grub2
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 2.12affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-0.87.el7_9.15 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-162.el8_10 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-87.el8_2.13 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-99.el8_4.12 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-99.el8_4.12 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-99.el8_4.12 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-123.el8_6.18 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-123.el8_6.18 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-123.el8_6.18 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.02-152.el8_8.2 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default version status: affected
1:2.06-94.el9_5 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Default version status: affected
1:2.06-27.el9_0.22 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.06-61.el9_2.10 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support
Default version status: affected
1:2.06-86.el9_4.2 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
Default version status: affected
412.86.202503310142-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
Default version status: affected
413.92.202504070146-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
Default version status: affected
414.92.202505141057-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
Default version status: affected
415.92.202504282058-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
Default version status: affected
416.94.202503252048-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
Default version status: affected
417.94.202503241418-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
Default version status: affected
418.94.202504021150-0 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Default version status: unaffected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2521 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2653 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2655 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2675 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2784 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2799 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2867 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2869 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3297 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3301 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3367 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3396 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3573 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3577 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3780 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4422 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7702 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0624 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346112 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250516-0006/ ↗