CVE-2020-14310

MEDIUM
6
CVSS Score
Published: July 31, 2020 at 08:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:54 AM UTC
8 products affected across 5 vendorsUbuntu LinuxEnterprise LinuxLeap

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Severity
MEDIUM6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (5)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14310
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-122CWE-190

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