CVE-2022-3775

HIGH

GRUB2 < 2.06 - Out-of-bounds Write via Unicode Glyph Rendering

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When rendering certain unicode sequences, grub2's font code doesn't proper validate if the informed glyph's width and height is constrained within bitmap size. As consequence an attacker can craft an input which will lead to a out-of-bounds write into grub2's heap, leading to memory corruption and availability issues. Although complex, arbitrary code execution could not be discarded.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-14

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
gnu/grub2 < 2.06
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
Published Dec 19, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026