CVE-2020-14310

LOW

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.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14310

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-07-31

Updated: 2020-08-08

Type: CWE-787

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 4.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 6

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

Impact Score: 5.2

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM