Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVE-2020-14311
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.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- HIGH
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published