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.
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/2 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/17/4 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/21/1 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852009 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05 | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0008/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2020-07-29T19:03:41
Updated: 2021-09-21T11:06:24
Reserved: 2020-06-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-14308
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2020-07-29T20:15:12.397
Modified: 2022-04-18T15:22:28.780
Link: CVE-2020-14308
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE