CVE-2025-0678: Grub2: squash4: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

Grub2: squash4: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

— Microsoft

When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciously crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculation to overflow, causing it to perform a grubmalloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result the directread() will perform a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.

— Red Hat