CVE-2021-3696CWE-787

A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader

published July 6, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00473 · 39.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2022-07-06T15:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 15:06Z
    A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader
    cvelistv5