CVE-2017-9763 (GCVE-0-2017-9763)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-19 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:18
VLAI
Summary
The grub_ext2_read_block function in fs/ext2.c in GNU GRUB before 2013-11-12, as used in shlr/grub/fs/ext2.c in radare2 1.5.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive stack use and application crash) via a crafted binary file, related to use of a variable-size stack array.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2362 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2017-06-19 00:00
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