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Debian: DSA-4735-1 Critical Grub2 Buffer Overflow Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2020
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4736-1 resolves several vulnerabilities in grub2, strengthening the security posture and reliability of the operating system.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader

Summary

CVE-2020-10713

A flaw in the grub.cfg parsing code was found allowing to break
UEFI Secure Boot and load arbitrary code. Details can be found at


CVE-2020-14308

It was discovered that grub_malloc does not validate the allocation
size allowing for arithmetic overflow and subsequently a heap-based
buffer overflow.

CVE-2020-14309

An integer overflow in grub_squash_read_symlink may lead to a heap-
based buffer overflow.

CVE-2020-14310

An integer overflow in read_section_from_string may lead to a heap-
based buffer overflow.

CVE-2020-14311

An integer overflow in grub_ext2_read_link may lead to a heap-based
buffer overflow.

CVE-2020-15706

script: Avoid a use-after-free when redefining a function during
execution.

CVE-2020-15707

An integer overflow flaw was found in the initrd size handling.

Further detailed information can be found at

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u1.

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Package: grub2
CVE ID: CVE-2020-10713 CVE-2020-14308 CVE-2020-14309 CVE-2020-14310

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