Unchecked Return Value Affecting grub2 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRUB2-8739158
  • published20 Feb 2025
  • disclosed28 Jan 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-45775  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-252  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value due to the grub_extcmd_dispatcher function's failure to verify successful memory allocation. An attacker can cause the system to crash or corrupt critical data by triggering a memory allocation failure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1