Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting grub package, versions <2.06-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-GRUB-6106571
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed30 Jul 2020

Introduced: 30 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-14309  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 grub to version 2.06-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub package and not the grub package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 when handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size. The name size leads to an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-size allocation further causing a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker controlled data.

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