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CVE-2015-8370
HIGH · CVSS 7.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2015-12-16T21:59:04.063 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:24.010

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — grub2

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References

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