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CVE-2020-14309

grub2: Integer overflow in grub_squash_read_symlink may lead to heap-based buffer overflow

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 30, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size, the name size leads to an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-size allocation further causing a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker controlled data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound