CVE-2017-9763

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The grub_ext2_read_block function in fs/ext2.c in GNU GRUB before 2013-11-12, as used in shlr/grub/fs/ext2.c in radare2 1.5.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive stack use and application crash) via a crafted binary file, related to use of a variable-size stack array.

Affected products

radareorg/radare2: 1.5.0

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/grub-core/fs/ext2.c?id=ac8cac1dac50daaf1c390d701cca3b55e16ee768
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99141
https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/65000a7fd9eea62359e6d6714f17b94a99a82edd
https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/7723
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/grub-core/fs/ext2.c?id=ac8cac1dac50daaf1c390d701cca3b55e16ee768
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99141
https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/65000a7fd9eea62359e6d6714f17b94a99a82edd
https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/7723

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