Integer overflows were discovered in the functions grub_cmd_initrd and grub_initrd_init in the efilinux component of GRUB2, as shipped in Debian, Red Hat, and Ubuntu (the functionality is not included in GRUB2 upstream), leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. These could be triggered by an extremely large number of arguments to the initrd command on 32-bit architectures, or a crafted filesystem with very large files on any architecture. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code and bypass UEFI Secure Boot restrictions. This issue affects GRUB2 version 2.04 and prior versions.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2020-07-29T17:45:34.577890Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:07:49.301Z

Reserved: 2020-07-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-15707

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-07-29T18:15:14.640

Modified: 2021-09-13T14:25:40.717

Link: CVE-2020-15707

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2020-15707 - Bugzilla