Description
When reading data from a hfs filesystem, grub's hfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem metadata to calculate the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculation to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result the hfsplus_open_compressed_real() function will write past of the internal buffer length. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution by-passing 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 10
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Default version status: unaffected