CVE-2015-8370 PUBLISHED

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (disk corruption) via backspace characters in the (1) grub_username_get function in grub-core/normal/auth.c or the (2) grub_password_get function in lib/crypto.c, which trigger an "Off-by-two" or "Out of bounds overwrite" memory error.

EPSS 3.05% · 86.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
3.05%
86.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSgrub20, 2.00-19ubuntu2, 2.00-19ubuntu3

Timeline

References

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