Severity
6.0MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 83.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 31
Latest updateMay 24

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:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.5 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDgnu/grub2< 2.06
Debiangrub2< 2.04-9+3
CVEListV5the_grub2_project/grub22.06
NVDopensuse/leap15.1, 15.2+1

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, Enterprise Linux 7.0, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-849w-6cw8-9p7m: There is an issue on grub2 before version 22022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-14310: There is an issue on grub2 before version 22020-07-31
OSV
CVE-2020-14310: There is an issue on grub2 before version 22020-07-31

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
grub2: Integer overflow read_section_as_string may lead to heap-based buffer overflow2020-07-29
Ubuntu
GRUB 2 vulnerabilities2020-07-29
Microsoft
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 buf2020-07-14
Debian
CVE-2020-14310: grub2 - There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function read_section_as_strin...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-14310 grub2: Integer overflow read_section_as_string may lead to heap-based buffer overflow [fedora-all]2020-08-03
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-14310 grub2: Integer overflow read_section_as_string may lead to heap-based buffer overflow2020-06-29
CVE-2020-14310 (MEDIUM CVSS 6) | There is an issue on grub2 before v | cvebase.io