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CVE-2020-14311 (GCVE-0-2020-14311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-31 20:56 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:39
VLAI
Summary
There is an issue with grub2 before version 2.06 while handling symlink on ext filesystems. A filesystem containing a symbolic link with an inode size of UINT32_MAX causes an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-sized memory allocation with subsequent heap-based buffer overflow.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Grub2 Project grub2 Affected: 2.06
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