DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-56738
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738
Upstream
Published
2024-12-29T07:15:06Z
Modified
2026-09-15T09:03:20Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.06-13
2.06-13+deb12u1
2.06-13+deb12u2
2.06-13+hurd.1
2.06-13+hurd.2
2.06-14
2.12~rc1-1
2.12~rc1-2
2.12~rc1-3
2.12~rc1-6
2.12~rc1-7
2.12~rc1-8
2.12~rc1-9
2.12~rc1-10
2.12~rc1-11
2.12~rc1-12
2.12~rc1-13
2.12-1~bpo12+1
2.12-1
2.12-1.1
2.12-2~deb13u1
2.12-2
2.12-3
2.12-4
2.12-5
2.12-5+hurd.1
2.12-6
2.12-7
2.12-8
2.12-9
2.12-9+hurd.1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2
2.14-1
2.14-2
2.14-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738.json"

Debian:13 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.12-9
2.12-9+deb13u1
2.12-9+deb13u2
2.12-9+hurd.1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2
2.14-1
2.14-2
2.14-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738.json"

Debian:14 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.12-9
2.12-9+hurd.1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1
2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2
2.14-1
2.14-2
2.14-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56738.json"