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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-14308: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 29, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-grub
Title
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