| Name | CVE-2020-14308 |
| Description | In grub2 versions before 2.06 the grub memory allocator doesn't check for possible arithmetic overflows on the requested allocation size. This leads the function to return invalid memory allocations which can be further used to cause possible integrity, confidentiality and availability impacts during the boot process. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4735-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| grub2 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.06-3~deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.06-3~deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2.06-13+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.12-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| grub2 | source | buster | 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u1 | | DSA-4735-1 | |
| grub2 | source | (unstable) | 2.04-9 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - grub2 <ignored> (No SecureBoot support in stretch)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git;a=commit;h=f725fa7cb2ece547c5af01eeeecfe8d95802ed41
[jessie] - grub2 <ignored> (No SecureBoot support in jessie)