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CVE-2015-8370

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.

  • Published: Dec 16, 2015
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8370
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
gnu / grub2 2.02 2.02.x
gnu / grub2 2.01 2.01.x
gnu / grub2 2.00 2.00.x
gnu / grub2 1.99 1.99.x
gnu / grub2 1.98 1.98.x
fedoraproject / fedora 23 23.x