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vulnerabilityCVE-2021-3696
Name
CVE-2021-3696
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
Description
A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader. This may lead to data corruption in the heap space. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availablity impact may be considered Low as it's very complex to an attacker control the encoding and positioning of corrupted Huffman entries to achieve results such as arbitrary code execution and/or secure boot circumvention. 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
6.9
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