CVE-2025-61662
CVE-2025-61662: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.8
High [CVE-2025-61662] Grub2: missing unregister call for gettext command may lead to use-after-free
CVE-2025-61662Source published Source updated
A Use-After-Free vulnerability has been discovered in GRUB's gettext module. This flaw stems from a programming error where the gettext command remains registered in memory after its module is unloaded. An attacker can exploit this condition by invoking the orphaned command, causing the application to access a memory location that is no longer valid. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause grub to crash, leading to a Denial of Service. Possible data integrity or confidentiality compromise is not discarded. This vulnerability has been rated as have the impact of Moderate by the Red Hat Product Security team. This decision was made based in the fact an attacker needs local or physical access to the machine, to execute the gettext command after it was unloaded. Additionally…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
19 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- grub2-1:2.12-29.el10_1.2
- grub2-1:2.12-15.el10_0.2
- grub2-1:2.02-0.87.el7_9.16
- grub2-1:2.02-170.el8_10.1
37 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- There's no known mitigation available for this vulnerability.
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