Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package grub2-common  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GRUB2COMMON-12311559
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed7 Jun 2022

Introduced: 7 Jun 2022

CVE-2021-3697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub2-common package and not the grub2-common package as distributed by RHEL.

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.