CVE-2015-8370

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-12-10

Description

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allowphysically 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

See more information about CVE-2015-8370 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.9	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (grub2)	ELSA-2015-2623	2015-12-15

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