CVE-2020-14311 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-14311

Vendor The Grub2 Project
Product grub2
Weakness CWE-190
Published July 31, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

5.7/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 31, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated