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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-88e4b1f3a2 Notable: Systemd Resource Leak

fedora
Calendar Grey December 17, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 improves grub2 to mitigate a critical stack overflow issue that arises during the startup process.
Fixes CVE-2015-8370.

Summary

The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and customizable

bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich varietyof kernel formats,

file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. This subpackage

provides support for PC BIOS systems.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2015-8370.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow critical grub2

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1290417 - CVE-2015-8370 grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290417

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c ''yum update grub2'' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: grub2
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.02
Release: 0.18.fc22
URL:
Summary: Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow critical grub2

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