CVE-2019-14865 (GCVE-0-2019-14865)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-29 09:50 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
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Summary
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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[UNKNOWN] grub2 Affected: n/a
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