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CVE-2022-28737

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2023-07-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

There's a possible overflow in handle_image() when shim tries to load and execute crafted EFI executables; The handle_image() function takes into account the SizeOfRawData field from each section to be loaded. An attacker can leverage this to perform out-of-bound writes into memory. Arbitrary code execution is not discarded in such scenario.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Shim

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References