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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14311

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14311 PUBLISHED CVSS 6 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12grub20, 0, 0
Debian:11grub20, 0, 0
Debian:14grub20, 0, 0
Debian:13grub20, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jul 31, 2020 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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