CVE-2020-14310 Information

Description

There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function read_section_as_string(). It expects a font name to be at max UINT32_MAX - 1 length in bytes but it doesn’t verify it before proceed with buffer allocation to read the value from the font value. An attacker may leverage that by crafting a malicious font file which has a name with UINT32_MAX leading to read_section_as_string() to an arithmetic overflow zero-sized allocation and further heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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=CVE-2020-14310 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.0