Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package grub2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-GRUB2-653120
- published19 Jun 2017
- disclosed19 Jun 2017
Introduced: 19 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9763 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub2 package and not the grub2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The grub_ext2_read_block function in fs/ext2.c in GNU GRUB before 2013-11-12, as used in shlr/grub/fs/ext2.c in radare2 1.5.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive stack use and application crash) via a crafted binary file, related to use of a variable-size stack array.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9763
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9763
- https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/65000a7fd9eea62359e6d6714f17b94a99a82edd
- https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/7723
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/grub-core/fs/ext2.c?id=ac8cac1dac50daaf1c390d701cca3b55e16ee768
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99141