DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14311

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-14311
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14311.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14311
Upstream
Published
2020-07-31T22:15:11Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:49Z
Severity
  • 6.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.04-9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.04-9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.04-9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / grub2

Package

Name
grub2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.04-9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}