+ Thomas Grainger

Thanks Mike for reporting it.

In resume, there is a MR which would solve this
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/merge_requests/177

Thomas, correct me if I am wrong?


On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Adding the GRUB upstream development list on this too; the information
> > is already public in the Debian BTS so there's no point trying to keep
> > thie embargoed.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:20:10AM +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> > >Le mardi 11 août 2026, 06:19:06 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Carlos
> Henrique Lima Melara a écrit :
> > >> Control: found -1 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 09:50:59PM +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > CVE-2025-13151 (libtasn1 - off-by-one in asn1_expand_octet_string,
> fixed in
> > >> > 4.20.0)
> > >> >
> > >> > The fix changes:
> > >> >   char name[2 * ASN1_MAX_NAME_SIZE + 1]
> > >> >
> > >> >  to:
> > >> >    char name[2 * ASN1_MAX_NAME_SIZE + 2]
> > >> >
> > >> > This applies to two functions: asn1_expand_any_defined_by and
> > >> > asn1_expand_octet_string.
> > >> >
> > >> > Grub2 vendor libtasn1 internally and show a partial fix -
> > >> > asn1_expand_any_defined_by has been updated (+ 2 present) but
> > >> > asn1_expand_octet_string still carries the vulnerable version (+ 1):
> > >> >    - grub2 (grub-core/lib/libtasn1/lib/decoding.c)
> > >> >         asn1_expand_any_defined_by: patched
> > >> >      asn1_expand_octet_string: VULNERABLE
> > >> >      Note: grub2 carries two separate embedded copies (libtasn1 and
> > >> >  libtasn1-grub)
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks to Gajendra Nath Soren
> > >>
> > >> This embedded copy was added in 9a26abbc368 (grub-2.14-rc1), so it
> only
> > >> (possibly) affects forky/sid.
> > >
> > >Can we report upstream ?
> > >
> > >rouca
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Charles
> > >>
> > >
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. I created a task on the new GRUB issue tracker.
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/work_items/66
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