Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting shim-aa64 package, versions <0:15-14.el8_1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-SHIMAA64-3936705
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 29 Jul 2020
How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 shim-aa64 to version 0:15-14.el8_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:3223.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream shim-aa64 package and not the shim-aa64 package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14311
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14311
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/21/1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/