CVE-2019-14865

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.9

Exploit probability26. percentile0.3%

Product

Gnu Grub2

PublishedNov 29, 2019

First seenNov 29, 2019

Weakness typeCWE-267CWE-267

How to fix

Vendor advisories

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
gnu grub2	No range specified	—

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