# CVE-2021-3696: A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-07-06 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a grub2: grub-2.06

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a grub2, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991686
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-12
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220930-0001/

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