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vulnerabilityCVE-2021-3695
Name
CVE-2021-3695
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
Description
A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a out-of-bounds write in the heap area. An attacker may take advantage of that to cause heap data corruption or eventually arbitrary code execution and circumvent secure boot protections. This issue has a high complexity to be exploited as an attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout to achieve signifcant results, also the values written into the memory are repeated three times in a row making difficult to produce valid payloads. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
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Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
grub
Exploitable

Vulnerability Ratings#


4.5
CVSSv31
4.4
CVSSv2

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
2.12
Not Affected
buildroot
master
2.14
Not Affected
openwrt
master
2.12-r1
Not Affected
openwrt
openwrt-25.12
2.12-r1
Not Affected
yocto
master
2.14
Not Affected
yocto
scarthgap
2.12
Not Affected