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Fedora 23: 2015:cebe5133e7 Critical: grub2 Buffer Overflow Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey December 13, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 released a security update addressing CVE-2015-8370, a critical grub2 buffer overflow. Follow these steps to apply the update safely
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 buffer overflow Fedora system update 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 23
Version: 2.02
Release: 0.25.fc23
URL:
Summary: Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora system update grub2

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