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CVE-2021-3697

A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap.

Impact

A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap. To a successful to be performed the attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout and craft an image with a malicious format and payload. This vulnerability can lead to data corruption and eventual code execution or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
GnuGrub2
from 2.00 before 2.12
RedhatDeveloper Tools
Version 1.0
RedhatOpenshift
Version 3.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.4, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Eus
Versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux For Power Little Endian
Versions 8.0, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus
Versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions
Versions 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Tus
Versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedhatOpenshift Container Platform
Versions 4.6, 4.9, 4.10
RedhatCodeready Linux Builder
All versions

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