Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-14865
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.
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Affected products
2- grub2/grub2description
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References
4- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
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