CVE-2019-14865

Publication date 29 November 2019

Last updated 1 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
grub2 19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

this issue is in a Red Hat-specific patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.9 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H