CVE-2019-14865 (GCVE-0-2019-14865)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-11-29 09:50
Modified
2025-02-13 16:27
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] grub2 Version: n/a
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