CVE-2019-14865

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Nov 29, 2019
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 10, 2019

Description

A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-267

Affected Products

Product	Versions
grub2[UNKNOWN]	n/aAffected

References

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865
RHSA-2020:0335vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3

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