Vulnerability CVE-2023-40547


Published: 2024-01-25

Description:
A remote code execution vulnerability was found in Shim. The Shim boot support trusts attacker-controlled values when parsing an HTTP response. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a specific malicious HTTP request, leading to a completely controlled out-of-bounds write primitive and complete system compromise.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40547
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234589

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