suse · CVE-2015-8370

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:35:05 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 18:09:05 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8370 severity moderate: SUSE including 448 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 532 product×package rows across 53 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, … (53 product lines)): Fixed 375, Known Affected 157.

Description:

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.

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