CVE-2022-3775: GNU GRUB2

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When rendering certain unicode sequences, grub2's font code doesn't proper validate if the informed glyph's width and height is constrained within bitmap size. As consequence an attacker can craft an input which will lead to a out-of-bounds write into grub2's heap, leading to memory corruption and availability issues. Although complex, arbitrary code execution could not be discarded.

Affected products

  • GNU GRUB2: up to and including 2.06
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2022-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.