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vulnerabilityCVE-2024-56738
Name
CVE-2024-56738
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
Description
GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 does not use a constant-time algorithm for grub_crypto_memcmp and thus allows side-channel attacks.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
-
Advisories

Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
grub
Exploitable

Vulnerability Ratings#


5.3
CVSSv31
NaN
other

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
2.12
Patched
buildroot
master
2.14
Not Affected
openwrt
master
2.12-r1
Exploitable
openwrt
openwrt-25.12
2.12-r1
Exploitable
yocto
kirkstone
2.06
Exploitable
yocto
master
2.14
Not Affected

Resolved with patches#


grub2 (buildroot:2025.02.x)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Constant-time grub_crypto_memcmp()
Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
CVE-2024-56738