CVE-2021-3696

Publication date 6 July 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
grub2	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
grub2-signed	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.187.3~22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.187.3~20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.187.3~18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable
grub2-unsigned	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.06-2ubuntu14.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.06-2ubuntu14.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.06-2ubuntu14.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)