CVE 2021-3696
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.
Related bugs and status
CVE-2021-3696 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:
Bug #1926748: regression in xenial updates - grub2 cannot handle new arm64 relocations
Bug #1930742: cloud images in xenial do not get their boot path updated because we don't call grub-install --force-extra-removable
Bug #2008950: Missing modules on arm64 builds of monolithic grub
Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
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2008950 | Missing modules on arm64 builds of monolithic grub | grub2 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released |
Bug #2028947: grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing
Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
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2028947 | grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing | grub2-unsigned (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
2028947 | grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing | canonical-signing-jobs | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
2028947 | grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing | grub2-signed (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
2028947 | grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing | canonical-signing-jobs task00 | Medium | Fix Released | ||
2028947 | grub2-unsigned/2.12~rc1-4ubuntu1 signing | grub2 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released |
Bug #2034119: [Debian] High CVE: CVE-2021-3695/CVE-2021-3696/CVE-2021-3697/CVE-2022-28733/CVE-2022-28734/CVE-2022-28735/CVE-2022-28736 grub2: multiple CVEs
Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
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2034119 | [Debian] High CVE: CVE-2021-3695/CVE-2021-3696/CVE-2021-3697/CVE-2022-28733/CVE-2022-28734/CVE-2022-28735/CVE-2022-28736 grub2: multiple CVEs | StarlingX | High | Fix Released |
See the
CVE page on Mitre.org
for more details.