CVE-2020-14309 Information

Description

There’s an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 when handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size. The name size leads to an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-size allocation further causing a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker controlled data.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852022 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0008/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.7