Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-14310
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 grub2 2.06-23 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 grub2 2.06~rc1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 grub2 2.06~rc1-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.06-23 |
| — | Security Update | - |
| — | Security Update | 2.06~rc1-7 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-14310
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.7 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function read_section_as_string(). It expects a font name to be at max UINT32_MAX - 1 length in bytes but it doesn't verify it before proceed with buffer allocation to read the value from the font value. An attacker may leverage that by crafting a malicious font file which has a name with UINT32_MAX, leading to read_section_as_string() to an arithmetic overflow, zero-sized allocation and further heap-based buffer overflow.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-14310, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).