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Stack overflow vulnerability that allows a local root...

High severity Unreviewed Published Feb 10, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Stack overflow vulnerability that allows a local root user to access UEFI DXE driver and execute arbitrary code.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 3, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 10, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(21st percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-42059

GHSA ID

GHSA-27rf-x255-jv68

Source code

No known source code

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