gettext: Integer overflow leads to heap OOB write
authorLidong Chen <lidong.chen@oracle.com>
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:27:57 +0000 (06:27 +0000)
committerFelix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commite09d75212cd54c2b3b8b2980ac9131b059885fd2
tree8f6e82996c59bea516118e35aea976b5d0d347dd
parent214e8ebf433c571ade6fc52f09d853fb9a169e8e
gettext: Integer overflow leads to heap OOB write

The size calculation of the translation buffer in
grub_gettext_getstr_from_position() may overflow
to 0 leading to heap OOB write. This patch fixes
the issue by using grub_add() and checking for
an overflow.

Fixes: CVE-2024-45777
Reported-by: Nils Langius <nils@langius.de>
Signed-off-by: Lidong Chen <lidong.chen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alec Brown <alec.r.brown@oracle.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic cve-2025-jan
Gbp-Pq: Name gettext-Integer-overflow-leads-to-heap-OOB-write.patch
grub-core/gettext/gettext.c