CVE-2020-14311

Name	CVE-2020-14311
Description	There is an issue with grub2 before version 2.06 while handling symlink on ext filesystems. A filesystem containing a symbolic link with an inode size of UINT32_MAX causes an arithmetic overflow leading to a zero-sized memory allocation with subsequent heap-based buffer overflow.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-4735-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
grub2 (PTS)	buster	2.06-3~deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	2.06-3~deb10u3	fixed
	bullseye	2.06-3~deb11u5	fixed
	bullseye (security)	2.06-3~deb11u4	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.06-8	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
grub2	source	buster	2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u1		DSA-4735-1
grub2	source	(unstable)	2.04-9

Notes

[stretch] - grub2 <ignored> (No SecureBoot support in stretch)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git;a=commit;h=3f05d693d1274965ffbe4ba99080dc2c570944c6