A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap. To a successful to be performed the attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout and craft an image with a malicious format and payload. This vulnerability can lead to data corruption and eventual code execution or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "grub2",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "grub-2.06"
      }
    ]
  }
]