CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-14865
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2019-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-267
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu grub2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory