CVE-2021-20225
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-03 16:44
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924696Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWZ36QK4IKU6MWDWNOOWKPH3WXZBHT2R/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220325-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924696Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWZ36QK4IKU6MWDWNOOWKPH3WXZBHT2R/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220325-0001/Third Party Advisory
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