There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 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.
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4735-1 grub2 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-6461 There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4432-1 GRUB 2 vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:39:36.530Z

Reserved: 2020-06-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-14309

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-30T13:15:10.987

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:02:58.653

Link: CVE-2020-14309

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-07-29T17:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-14309 - Bugzilla

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