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CVE-2024-45783

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Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When failing to mount an HFS+ grub, the hfsplus filesystem driver doesn't properly set an ERRNO value. This issue may lead to a NULL pointer access.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
4.4 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2025-02-18 20:15:19.560000
Last modified
2026-10-21 21:17:30.220000
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  "published": "2025-02-18T20:15:19.560",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-21T21:17:30.220",
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      "value": "Se encontró un defecto en Grub2. Al no montar un HFS+ GRUB, el controlador del sistema de archivos HFSPLUS no establece correctamente un valor errno. Este problema puede conducir a un acceso de puntero nulo."
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