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CVE-2021-3696

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.5 Published: 2022-07-06 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Developer ToolsNetapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration UtilityRedhat OpenshiftRedhat Enterprise Linux Server TusRedhat Enterprise LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux EusGnu Grub2Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little EndianRedhat Openshift Container PlatformRedhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus

Weakness Type

CWE-787, CWE-787

References