On 29th July 2020, a team of security researchers disclosed a high priority bug in GRUB2(GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) , affecting billions of Linux and Windows systems using secure boot. CVE-2020-10713 is assigned to this buffer overflow vulnerability, termed as “Boothole”. “Boothole” Secure Boot is designed to verify all the firmware of the computer … Continue reading “GRUB2 Boothole Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-10713)”
Tag: SUSE
Integer Overflow in create_elf_tables() : CVE–2018-14634
An Integer overflow vulnerability has been disclosed by Qualys Research Labs. The vulnerability is assigned CVE-2018-14634. The issue affects kernels with commit b6a2fea39318 without da029c11e6b1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS are vulnerable. Upon successful exploitation a local attacker can gain root privileges on the target machine. A PoC is available online. Red Hat has addressed this … Continue reading “Integer Overflow in create_elf_tables() : CVE–2018-14634”
Out-of-Order Execution Side-Channel attack [Spectre/Meltdown]
A flaw in Out-of-Order execution mechanism allows user level programs to leak addresses of kernel and process memory space. This vulnerability can be exploited to bypass KASLR as well as CPU security features like SMAP,SMEP,NX and PXN. It can be exploited to bypass OS process isolation. The issue affects processors from Intel, AMD ,ARM, Samsung and … Continue reading “Out-of-Order Execution Side-Channel attack [Spectre/Meltdown]”
