RHSA-2026:4649 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader (GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.

Security Fix(es):

• grub2: Missing unregister call for gettext command may lead to use-after-free (CVE-2025-61662)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2414683 - CVE-2025-61662 grub2: Missing unregister call for gettext command may lead to use-after-free

CVEs

• CVE-2025-61662

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate