CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8370

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 versions 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 grub_username_get and grub_password_get functions.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the system or cause significant data damage, potentially leading to organizational downtime.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Grub2 to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized access attempts.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS