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.
References
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http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173703.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174049.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00039.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00040.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00041.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00043.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00044.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134831/Grub2-Authentication-Bypass.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2623.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/69 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3421 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537115/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79358 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034422 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2836-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8370 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-03 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8370 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-16T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.834Z

Reserved: 2015-11-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8370

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-16T21:59:04.063

Modified: 2024-01-16T01:15:33.947

Link: CVE-2015-8370

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-12-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8370 - Bugzilla