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% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-GRUB2COMMON-2576373
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • 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 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'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.

CVSS Base Scores

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