Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
(0 users assessed)
User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
High
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2020-14311

Disclosure Date: July 31, 2020
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Description

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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
6.0 Medium
Impact Score:
5.2
Exploitability Score:
0.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
High
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • canonical,
  • gnu,
  • opensuse,
  • redhat

Products

  • enterprise linux 7.0,
  • enterprise linux 8.0,
  • enterprise linux eus 8.1,
  • enterprise linux eus 8.2,
  • enterprise linux server aus 8.2,
  • enterprise linux server tus 8.2,
  • grub2,
  • leap 15.1,
  • leap 15.2,
  • ubuntu linux 14.04,
  • ubuntu linux 16.04,
  • ubuntu linux 18.04,
  • ubuntu linux 20.04
Technical Analysis