CVE-2024-56737 (GCVE-0-2024-56737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-29 00:00 – Updated: 2024-12-31 18:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 has a heap-based buffer overflow in fs/hfs.c via crafted sblock data in an HFS filesystem.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-31 18:16 UTC
CWE
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
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| https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66599 |
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