| Name | CVE-2019-14865 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| grub2 (PTS) | jessie (security), jessie | 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 2.02+dfsg1-20 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 2.04-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| grub2 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- grub2 <not-affected> (Red Hat-specific patch)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764925
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101
Red Hat-specific patch, get added as 0131-Add-grub-set-bootflag-utility.patch in their SRPM