VYPR
High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-3697

CVE-2021-3697

Description

A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap. To a successful to be performed the attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout and craft an image with a malicious format and payload. This vulnerability can lead to data corruption and eventual code execution or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

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