CVE-2020-15707 vulnerability in Red Hat and Other Products
Published on July 29, 2020
GRUB2 contained integer overflows when handling the initrd command, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-15707 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2020-15707 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
grub2 in Ubuntu:- Version 20.04 LTS and below 2.04-1ubuntu26.1 is affected.
- Version 18.04 LTS and below 2.02-2ubuntu8.16 is affected.
- Version 16.04 LTS and below 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.26 is affected.
- Version 14.04 ESM and below 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.20 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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