CVE-2024-56738

Description

GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 does not use a constant-time algorithm for grub_crypto_memcmp and thus allows side-channel attacks.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-12-29 | Published 2024-12-29 | Updated 2024-12-31 | Assigner mitre

Problem types

CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy

Product status

References

savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66603

cve.org (CVE-2024-56738)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-56738)