Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting grub2 package, versions [,2.06)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRUB2-2368582
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-14308  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade grub2 to version 2.06 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. In grub2 versions before 2.06 the grub memory allocator doesn't check for possible arithmetic overflows on the requested allocation size. This leads the function to return invalid memory allocations which can be further used to cause possible integrity, confidentiality and availability impacts during the boot process.

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