CVE-2020-14311

Name
CVE-2020-14311
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14311
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/2
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/4
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/21/1

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* grub2 >= None < 2.06

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status