{"id":"USN-5262-1","summary":"gdisk vulnerabilities","details":"\nThe potential for an out of bounds write due to a missing bounds\ncheck was discovered to impact the sgdisk utility of GPT fdisk. \nExploitation requires the use of a maliciously formatted storage \ndevice and could cause sgdisk to crash as well as possibly \nallow for local privilege escalation.\n\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:42:26Z","published":"2022-02-03T20:32:00Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2020-0256","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-0308"],"upstream":["CVE-2020-0256","CVE-2021-0308","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-0256","UBUNTU-CVE-2021-0308"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5262-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-0256"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-0308"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gdisk","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/gdisk@1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"}]}],"versions":["1.0.0-3","1.0.1-1","1.0.1-1build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"gdisk","binary_version":"1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"}],"availability":"Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2020-0256"},{"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2021-0308"}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5262-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}