Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting grub2-signed package, versions <1.142.3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GRUB2SIGNED-596063
  • published29 Jul 2020
  • disclosed31 Jul 2020

Introduced: 29 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-14311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 grub2-signed to version 1.142.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grub2-signed package and not the grub2-signed package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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