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CVE-2021-3697
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-07-06T16:15:08.320 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:05:34.907

Summary

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

gnu — grub2

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