ALPINE-CVE-2020-14310

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-14310
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2020-14310.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2020-14310
Upstream
Published
2020-07-31T22:15:11Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:17:33.895444Z
Severity
  • 6.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

There is an issue on grub2 before version 2.06 at function readsectionasstring(). It expects a font name to be at max UINT32MAX - 1 length in bytes but it doesn't verify it before proceed with buffer allocation to read the value from the font value. An attacker may leverage that by crafting a malicious font file which has a name with UINT32MAX, leading to readsectionasstring() to an arithmetic overflow, zero-sized allocation and further heap-based buffer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.17

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3

Alpine:v3.18

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3

Alpine:v3.19

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3

Alpine:v3.20

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3

Alpine:v3.21

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3

Alpine:v3.22

grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.06-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.02_beta3-r0
2.02_beta3-r1
2.02_beta3-r2
2.02_beta3-r3
2.02_beta3-r4
2.02_beta3-r5
2.02_beta3-r6
2.02_beta3-r7
2.02-r0
2.02-r1
2.02-r2
2.02-r3
2.02-r4
2.02-r5
2.02-r6
2.02-r7
2.02-r8
2.02-r9
2.02-r10
2.02-r11
2.02-r12
2.02-r13
2.02-r14
2.02-r15
2.02-r16
2.02-r17
2.02-r18
2.02-r19
2.02-r20
2.04-r0
2.04-r1
2.04-r2
2.04-r3