Red Hat Security AdvisoryRHSA-2020:3227
grub2 security update
Released 2020-07-29 · Red Hat rating Moderate · View on Red Hat →
Fixed in
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0) fwupd-1.1.4-2.el8_0, grub2-1:2.02-87.el8_0, grub2-common-1:2.02-87.el8_0 +18
Fixes 8 records
Priority LOW 39
A flaw was found in grub2, prior to version 2.06.
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.01711 · Published 2020-07-30 · Partial fix CWE-120
Priority LOW 32
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),…
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.01588 · Published 2020-07-29 · Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu26.1, 2.02-2ubuntu8.16 +2 CWE-362
Priority LOW 31
GRUB2 fails to validate kernel signature when booted directly without shim, allowing secure boot to be bypassed.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.01392 · Published 2020-07-29 · Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu26.1, 2.02-2ubuntu8.16 +2 CWE-347
Priority LOW 30
GRUB2 contains a race condition in grub_script_function_create() leading to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be triggered by redefining a function whilst the same function is already executing, leading to arbitra…
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00977 · Published 2020-07-29 · Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu26.1, 2.02-2ubuntu8.16 +2 CWE-362
Priority LOW 30
There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 when handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00482 · Published 2020-07-30 · Fixed CWE-190
Priority LOW 29
In grub2 versions before 2.06 the grub memory allocator doesn't check for possible arithmetic overflows on the requested allocation size.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00432 · Published 2020-07-29 · Fixed CWE-190
Priority LOW 27
There is an issue with grub2 before version 2.06 while handling symlink on ext filesystems.
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00465 · Published 2020-07-31 · Fixed CWE-122
Priority LOW 27
There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function read_section_as_string().
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0· Local · High privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.0046 · Published 2020-07-31 · Fixed CWE-122