GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #58025, Mismatch between Multiboot 2 spec...
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bug #58025: Mismatch between Multiboot 2 spec and GRUB code
Submitter: | Bogdan Barbu <love4boobies> | ||
Submitted: | Mon 23 Mar 2020 07:09:12 AM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | None |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Open | Release: | Git master |
Release: | Reproducibility: | None | |
Planned Release: | None |
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Section 3.6.12 of the Multiboot 2 specification defined the reserved field as having type u8. However, in multiboot2.h it has type multiboot_uint16_t. This confusion can result in people trying to read color_info and getting garbage instead.
Originally reported here: https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=304751