FKIE_CVE-2014-8271

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-06 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:16
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Buffer overflow in the Reclaim function in Tianocore EDK2 before SVN 16280 allows physically proximate attackers to gain privileges via a long variable name.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://sourceforge.net/p/edk2/code/16280/Patch
cret@cert.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/533140Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sourceforge.net/p/edk2/code/16280/Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/533140Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tianocore edk2 *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:16:29.567",
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