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grub2 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- grub2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.04-9
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14308
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14308
grub2
Fixed versions: 2.04-9
grub2
Fixed versions: 2.04-9
grub2
Fixed versions: 2.04-9
Complete source record
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