cve-2020-14311
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-31 20:56
Modified
2024-08-04 12:39
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
There is an issue with grub2 before version 2.06 while handling symlink on ext filesystems. A filesystem containing a symbolic link with an inode size of UINT32_MAX causes an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-sized memory allocation with subsequent heap-based buffer overflow.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/21/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14311Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
The Grub2 Projectgrub2
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