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F5 Networks: K25901386 (CVE-2015-8370): GRUB2 vulnerability CVE-2015-8370

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F5 Networks: K25901386 (CVE-2015-8370): GRUB2 vulnerability CVE-2015-8370

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/16/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
10/13/2017

Description

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (disk corruption) via backspace characters in the (1) grub_username_get function in grub-core/normal/auth.c or the (2) grub_password_get function in lib/crypto.c, which trigger an "Off-by-two" or "Out of bounds overwrite" memory error.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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