cve-2025-0686
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-03 17:14
Modified
2025-03-04 16:12
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Summary
Grub2: romfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat
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Impacted products
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