Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting grub2-common package, versions <1:2.02-82.0.2.el8_2.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-GRUB2COMMON-2575860
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed31 Jul 2020

Introduced: 31 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-14310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 grub2-common to version 1:2.02-82.0.2.el8_2.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-5786.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub2-common package and not the grub2-common package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function read_section_as_string(). It expects a font name to be at max UINT32_MAX - 1 length in bytes but it doesn't verify it before proceed with buffer allocation to read the value from the font value. An attacker may leverage that by crafting a malicious font file which has a name with UINT32_MAX, leading to read_section_as_string() to an arithmetic overflow, zero-sized allocation and further heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

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