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EUVD-2026-183249
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2026-10-02 06:41
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CVE-2020-15707 (GCVE-0-2020-15707)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-29 17:45 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
GRUB2 contained integer overflows when handling the initrd command, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Summary
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.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-362 - Race Condition (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)
Assigner
References
17 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | grub2 in Ubuntu |
Affected:
20.04 LTS , < 2.04-1ubuntu26.1
(custom)
Affected: 18.04 LTS , < 2.02-2ubuntu8.16 (custom) Affected: 16.04 LTS , < 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.26 (custom) Affected: 14.04 ESM , < 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.20 (custom) |
Date Public
2020-07-29 00:00
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