cve-2025-0685
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-03 17:14
Modified
2025-07-28 17:35
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Grub2: jfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data
References
▼ | URL | Tags | |
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secalert@redhat.com | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0685 | Vendor Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346120 | Issue Tracking |
Impacted products
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