Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting grub2-pc-modules package, versions <1:2.02-87.el8_2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GRUB2PCMODULES-3769630
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Jul 2020

Introduced: 29 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-14310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 grub2-pc-modules to version 1:2.02-87.el8_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:3216.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub2-pc-modules package and not the grub2-pc-modules package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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

version 3.1