CVE-2009-4128

Publication date

2009-12-01 00:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) 2 1.97 only compares the submitted portion of a password with the actual password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to conduct brute force attacks and bypass authentication by submitting a password whose length is 1.